Hospitals: Construction

(asked on 24th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many new NHS hospital facilities specifically for secondary and acute care in England (a) have been built, (b) are under construction and (c) are planned for completion between 2015 and 2025; what the (i) location and (ii) estimated capital value is of each of those new hospital facilities, including those that are valued at less than £100 million; and what the proportion of financing for each project is (A) public and (B) private financing.


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Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 27th June 2019

In the 2017 Spring and Autumn Budgets, the Government committed £3.9 billion in new capital investment for the National Health Service. £2.4 billion of this has been allocated to over 150 sustainability and transformation partnership (STP) schemes to modernise and transform buildings and services across the country. In the Spending Review later this year, the Government will consider proposals from the NHS for a multi-year capital plan to support the health service as outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan.

Separate from the STP capital programme, the Department has also supported a variety of other investments in new NHS facilities. Under Section 40 of the NHS Act 2006, the Secretary of State may give financial assistance, such as loans or Public Dividend Capital to any NHS foundation trust.

The Papworth Hospital and the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital were completed in 2018 and 2015 respectively under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). The Royal Liverpool Hospital and Midland Metropolitan Hospital started off as PFI schemes and are now being completed with public capital.

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