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Hospitals: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many wave one schemes under the New Hospital Programme have begun construction.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
26 Jan 2026
Target answer date
28 Jan 2026
Answer
13 Feb 2026 · 18 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 26 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many wave one schemes under the New Hospital Programme have begun construction.

  2. 28 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Feb 2026

    Answer published

    Of the 16 schemes in Wave 1 of the New Hospital Programme (NHP), the Derriford Emergency Care Hospital commenced construction in October 2025. Poole Hospital and the remaining stages of Brighton 3Ts hospital (for the Sussex Cancer Centre) are in the pre-c...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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