Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to allocate capital funding for maternity and neonatal services.

We recognise that repairing and rebuilding our healthcare estate is a vital part of the Government's ambition to create a National Health Service that is fit for the future. As a first step towards improving our maternity and neonatal estate, we are investing £131 million through the 2025-26 Estates Safety Fund to address critical safety risks on the maternity estate, enabling better care for mothers and their newborns. The funded works will deliver vital safety improvements, enhance patient and staff environments, and support NHS productivity by reducing disruptions across NHS clinical services.

In addition, the Government is backing the NHS with over £4 billion in operational capital in 2025-26, enabling systems to allocate funding to maternity and neonatal services where this is a local priority.