Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which of his Department's capital investment programmes have involved expenditure in Blackpool North and Cleveleys constituency since 2010.

The information below details capital investment funding provided by the Department’s central capital programmes between 1 April 2013 and 25 November 2014. The three trusts listed provide the main acute, community/mental health and ambulance services respectively for Blackpool North and Cleveleys constituency.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust:

- £682,000 for ‘Improving Birthing Environments’;

- £1.375 million for ’Energy Efficiency’;

- £450,000 for ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards Technology Fund’;

- 54,000 for ‘Nursing Technology Fund’; and

- £383,000 for ‘Improving Maternity Care Settings’.

Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust:

- £358,000 for ‘Nursing Technology Fund’; and

- £403,000 for ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards Technology Fund’.

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust:

- None.

Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust also received £49,000 capital investment during the financial year 2012-13 but the Department does not hold information as to the purpose for which the public dividend capital was issued. Prior to the financial year 2012-13 the Department does not hold records of investments split by whether they are for capital or revenue funding purposes.

In addition, the Department holds information on the following major hospital capital investment projects undertaken during this period within Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust:

- a ‘Phase 6 development - new surgical unit’ with a capital value of £34 million, which opened in July 2011; and

- a ‘Women and Children Maternity unit’ with a capital value of £14 million opened August 2010.