Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State plans to respond to the letter of 31 October from the hon. Member for Birmingham Northfield on Premises Cost Directions and Bournville Gardens Health and Wellbeing Centre.

A response was sent by post and email on 29 November 2017.

NHS England has advised that the application to the Estates and Technology Transformation Fund is currently going through the approval processes and checks.

To avoid delays, additional funding has been provided to the clinical commissioning group (CCG) for the development of its Outline Business Case. The CCG is engaging with the Bournville Village Trust to progress the business case.