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 with local healthcare commissioners and providers to plan for the provision of new hospitals in areas which will require new hospitals in the next 10-20 years; and what recent assessment he has made of the date when York will require a new hospital.

Local health infrastructure needs are determined by local health system planners at integrated care board level in collaboration with NHS England and are not separately assessed by the Department.

The Government has committed to delivering 40 hospitals as part of the New Hospital Programme, backed by an initial £3.7 billion for the first four years. As with any multi-year investment, future funding for will be set out in further detail at future spending reviews.

Expressions of interest for the next eight new hospitals to conclude the commitment to deliver 40 new hospitals were received from trusts across the country. The expressions of interest have been assessed and the Government intends to make an announcement in due course. No expressions of interest were received from York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.