Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what criteria his Department has used to determine the allocation of repair funds to the Royal Berkshire Hospital.

The £750 million Estates Safety Fund is part of the overall 2025/26 capital allocation announced by the Chancellor at the Autumn Budget 2024.

The £750 million was divided between integrated care systems (ICSs) through indicative funding allocations as part of the NHS Capital Guidance 2025/26. Each system’s indicative allocation represents a proportion of the £750 million based on need, taking into account levels of critical infrastructure risk, incidents and returns to the recent maternity estates survey.

Due to the diverse needs of the National Health Service estate, a flexible approach has been taken to ensure national and regional priorities are addressed effectively. ICSs worked with their local systems to identify and prioritise which schemes would be funded at which sites from their provisional allocations to deliver maximum safety benefits. The value of these schemes determined the financial allocations to NHS trusts.