Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department will publish an updated (a) multi-year capital settlement and (b) Health Infrastructure Plan.

The Chancellor has confirmed a one-year Spending Review on 25 November, which will set the Department’s capital budgets for 2021-22, as well as provide multi-year capital settlements for priority infrastructure projects, such as hospital building. Details on the Department’s settlement will be published in due course and updates to the Health Infrastructure Plan will depend on the outcome.