Select committee: Public Accounts Committee
Conclusion 23
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)
The Department said that it continually repeats the demand and capacity modelling to check the numbers are still right.49 When we asked whether the bed numbers for schemes that had been modelled were definitive, the 41 DHSC, Fit for the future, 10 Year Health Plan for England, CP 1350, 3 July 2025 42 Qq 33-35 43 Letter from DHSC, 23 February 2026 44 Q 33 45 Qq 26-28 46 Q 36 47 Qq 29-30 48 Letter from DHSC, 23 February 2026 49 Q 29 15 Department told us that it had an envelope of indicative figures for wave 1 hospitals and that work on a scheme-by-scheme basis would continue as these hospitals go through the business case process.50 50 Qq 37-39 16 3 Governance of the New Hospital Programme Programme capacity and capability
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).