Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to provide adequate facilities and funding for hospital staff to ensure they are able to do their work effectively.

The Government is investing in services and facilities to help National Health Service staff provide high quality care. The 2025 Spending Review (SR25) has prioritised health, with an increase of £29 billion in real terms by 2028/29 compared to 2023/24, and delivered the largest ever health capital budget, rising to £15.2 billion by the end of the Spending Review period for 2029/30.

We have set out our ambition for the NHS in the 10-Year Health Plan, backed up the 10 Year Infrastructure Plan. This will deliver:

• over £6 billion of additional capital to be invested in diagnostic, elective, and urgent and emergency capacity in the NHS over five years, including £1.65 billion in 2025/26 to deliver new surgical hubs, diagnostic scanners, and beds to increase capacity for elective and emergency care;

• £30 billion in capital funding over five years, from 2025/26 to 2029/30, in day-to-day maintenance and repair of the NHS estate, and a £6.75 billion investment over the next nine years to target the most critical building repairs;

• £1.6 billion to continue supporting NHS England’s national Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete programme across the SR25 period;

• 250 Neighbourhood Health Centres (NHCs) through the NHS Neighbourhood Rebuild Programme supporting the neighbourhood health service, with local multidisciplinary hubs reducing reliance on hospital outpatients and expanding access to primary care. The first 120 NHCs are due to be operational by 2030 funded through a mixture of public private partnerships and public capital; and

• over £400 million over four years for improvements in the primary care estate, with half of this funding supporting the upgrades of the existing estate to deliver NHCs.

This investment, together with the forthcoming 10 Year Workforce Plan, will continue to ensure that NHS staff, both in hospitals and in the community, can provide care at the right time and in the right place in line with our 10-Year Health Plan ambitions.