Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 22
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 for assurance about the quality of the NHP demand and capacity model, given the importance of the output. The Department said that the model was good and had been awarded a prize by the Royal Statistical Society.47 In written evidence provided after the session, the Department assured us that the model was developed and maintained within a controlled governance and quality assurance environment.48
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).