Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 8
76th Report - New Hospital Programme update
Published 22 Apr 2026
Addressed to HM Treasury
Public Accounts Committee New Hospital Programme update All items in this report Report on parliament.uk ↗ Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Conclusion (the committee's words)
We asked the Department how it was ensuring that the smaller earlier projects would not overrun and create a knock-on problem for the larger, more complex hospital projects in later years. NHS England told us that the reset had allowed it to revise the NHP’s governance arrangements, allowing for clearer and more agile oversight as well as more regular reports. This information could then be used to nudge other hospitals backwards or forwards to accommodate any movements in the timetable.12
From: Public Accounts Committee, 76th Report - New Hospital Programme update (HC 1705), 22 April 2026
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 4 August 2026 (deadline 22 June 2026).