Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many individual trusts and foundation trusts applied for inclusion in the final cohort of the New Hospital Programme.
A total of 128 applications were received from 100 trusts across the country for the next eight new hospitals, to conclude the Government’s commitment to build 40 new hospitals. The applications have been assessed and we intend to make an announcement in due course.