Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to support Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust's proposal for the redevelopment of the emergency department at Queen Alexandra Hospital.

The Government last year announced £2.9 billion of additional capital funding to support estate transformation across sustainability and transformation partnerships and 77 schemes have already been announced. Bids for the next funding round were submitted earlier this month and we are aware that Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust submitted a bid for the Emergency Floor Programme at Queen Alexandra Hospital. The Department are working closely with NHS Improvement and NHS England colleagues to evaluate bids. Following evaluation the successful schemes are expected to be announced in the autumn.