Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the progress of the New Hospital Programme.

The Government’s New Hospital Programme: Plan for Implementation was published in January 2025 and put the programme on a credible and sustainable footing, ensuring taxpayers get maximum value for money. We are committed to delivering all schemes and are moving at pace with the funding in place for design work, construction, and business case development for schemes in Wave 0 and Wave 1.

The National Audit Office and Public Accounts Committee (PAC) both recently published assessments of the programme and both recognised that the Plan for Implementation had put the programme on a more realistic footing. We will respond to the PAC’s report and recommendations formally in the usual way.