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 potential challenges of working with private finance companies to help deliver neighbourhood health centres.

The Government announced in the 10 Year Infrastructure Strategy on 19 June 2025, and in the 10-Year Health plan published on 3 July 2025, that it will explore the feasibility of using new Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) to deliver certain types of primary and community health infrastructure, including Neighbourhood Health Centres.

Any new model will be subject to market-testing, and will build on the lessons learned from past administrations’ experiences, the models currently in use elsewhere in the United Kingdom, and the March 2025 National Audit Office report titled Lessons Learned: private finance for infrastructure. The decision on whether to proceed with the use of PPPs for Neighbourhood Health Centres will be made by HM Treasury and the relevant ministers by the 2025 Autumn Budget.