Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 10
76th Report - New Hospital Programme update
Published 22 Apr 2026
Addressed to HM Treasury
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
Hospitals built from RAAC face significant safety risks, and schemes to replace them need to proceed at pace.16 In 2022 an independent report recommended that hospitals built from RAAC should be replaced by 9 C&AG’s Report: para 1.10 10 Q 8 11 C&AG’s Report: para 3.24 12 Qq 4-6 13 Q 7 14 Q 6 15 Q 19 16 C&AG’s report, paras 1.14 and 2.8 10 2030 at the latest.17 A subsequent report, published in December 2025, concluded that with mitigations and maintenance, the RAAC hospitals can stay operational past 2030 but with significant risk and cost.18 Under the Department’s new timetable for the NHP, the final RAAC replacement hospitals are due to be finished in 2033.19
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).