Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Cat Smith Excerpts
Wednesday 1st March 2023

(1 year, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Cat Smith Portrait Cat Smith  (Lancaster and Fleetwood) (Lab)
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Q4.   Last week I met nurses from the Royal College of Nursing. One of the biggest challenges that they face is the crumbling buildings of Royal Lancaster Infirmary. Hospital bosses were promised capital funding as one of the so-called 40 new hospitals back in January, but it is March and they have not seen a penny. How many broken hospitals and broken promises will it take for the Prime Minister to finally fix something?

Rishi Sunak Portrait The Prime Minister
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We are investing record sums in the hospital capital upgrade programme across the country. I am very happy to make sure that we are making progress on the scheme that she mentioned and that she gets the detail of that. It is not just the 40 hospitals but the 90 upgrades around the country, and up to 300 community diagnostic centres and elective surgical hubs. This is a Government who are backing the NHS with the resources it needs.