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Hospitals: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of potential increased maintenance costs for NHS Hospitals whose construction projects have been delayed under(a) wave 2 and (b) wave 3 of the New Hospital P

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
27 Jan 2025
Target answer date
29 Jan 2025
Answer
3 Feb 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 27 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of potential increased maintenance costs for NHS Hospitals whose construction projects have been delayed under(a) wave 2 and (b) wave 3 of the New Hospital P

  2. 29 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 3 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    The safety of National Health Service staff and patients is of vital importance to the Government. That is why repairing and rebuilding our hospital estate is a key part of our ambition to create an NHS that is fit for the future through our 10-Year Healt...

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