Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what is her Department's planned timeline to provide funding for the (a) outline business case and (b) rebuilding of the James Paget University Hospital.

We are committed to delivering a new hospital at James Paget University Hospital by 2030 in line with our announcement in May 2023. This announcement set out the need to prioritise the rebuilding of hospitals constructed with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete to protect staff and patient safety. The New Hospital Programme team is working closely with the trust on how to proceed with this as quickly as possible through a standardised approach. The trust has received funding to develop its Strategic Outline Case. In line with the standard business case assurance processes, once the Strategic Outline Case has been approved, the trust will begin work on their Outline Business Case.