Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the cost of the new hospital programme in each hospital trust.

The Department has published figures for funding allocated to individual trusts in the New Hospital Programme for their new hospital schemes during financial year 2021/22, which is available at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1131791/s40-report-2021-2022.pdf

Figures for 2022/23 will be published in the next report on Financial Assistance under Section 40 of the National Health Service Act 2006.