Hospitals: Construction
(asked on 3rd June 2026) - View Source
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 adequacy of progress on implementing the New Hospital Programme.
This question was answered on 10th June 2026
The previous government’s promise of 40 new hospitals by 2030 was a fantasy with no funding beyond March 2025. This government set out its approach to funding and delivering the Programme in the Plan for Implementation published last year. The Programme is making progress: seven schemes are providing care to patients with two more set to open shortly. Meanwhile, 10 contractors have been allocated to the new Alliance Framework to build eleven Wave 1 schemes.
The previous government’s promise of 40 new hospitals by 2030 was a fantasy with no funding beyond March 2025. This government set out its approach to funding and delivering the Programme in the Plan for Implementation published last year. The Programme is making progress: seven schemes are providing care to patients with two more set to open shortly. Meanwhile, 10 contractors have been allocated to the new Alliance Framework to build eleven Wave 1 schemes.