Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the quality and extent of the completed work done by Carillion at the Midland Metropolitan Hospital; and what assessment he has made of whether the work completed by Carillion was commensurate with the £205 million the company received to carry out that work.

Prior to the liquidation of Carillion, there were difficulties associated with the Mechanical, Engineering and Plant (MEP) design of the Midland Metropolitan Hospital which meant that the Trust was already expecting an 11-month delay to completion, although it is understood that these design issues were largely resolved at the point Carillion went into liquidation in January 2018. However less than 10% of the MEP had been installed as the fit out had barely commenced at that point.

The Trust will be using independent technical advisers and experts to review the overall work to date on the Midland Metropolitan Hospital as part of the programme of work to complete the new hospital.

The independent technical advisor to the lenders to the Private Finance Initiative consortium assessed and certified this valuation of £205 million a few days prior to Carillion going into liquidation.