Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much the New Hospitals Programme has cost to date.

The Government committed an initial £3.7 billion for the first four years of the New Hospital Programme. This was part of a multi-year capital funding settlement in 2020 and, as with any multi-year investment, future funding will be set out in further detail at future Spending Reviews. As per the announcement on 25 May 2023, the New Hospital Programme is now expected to be backed by over £20 billion of investment in hospital infrastructure.

The budget for the New Hospital Programme came into effect on 1 April 2021. Total spending to date is £1,141,592,000 of which £496,244,000 is of the outturn position for 2022/23 and remains provisional subject to final audit.