Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which companies have expressed an interest in investing in Public Private Partnerships.

The Government announced in the 10 Year Infrastructure Strategy document, published on 19 June, and its 10 Year Health Plan, published on 3 July, that it will explore the feasibility of using new Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) to deliver certain types of primary and community health infrastructure.

A decision whether to use PPPs in these circumstances will be taken in the Autumn Budget 2025, based on co-development of a model and business case between the Department and the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority.

Any new model will be market-tested and informed by past lessons and recent Government reviews to ensure better outcomes and value for money.

To better understand market appetite and lessons learned from previous PPPs, the Department conducted a successful preliminary market engagement exercise over the course of the summer. We had in excess of 320 interested parties who registered an interest, including advisors, construction, equity, debt, facilities management, and managed service providers. This preliminary market engagement exercise was not inviting expression of interest to invest, instead, it was focused on testing market appetite for a new PPP model and discussing lessons learnt.