Malcolm Moss (North East Cambridgeshire, Conservative)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the statement of 4 July 2007, Official Report, column 970, on the NHS next stage review, on what projects the £750 million community hospital capital funding has been (a) allocated to be spent and (b) already spent; what mechanisms have been used to allocate funding; and how much has been (i) allocated and (ii) spent on each project.

Ben Bradshaw (Minister of State (Health Services; Minister for the South West), Department of Health; Exeter, Labour)

Allocations from the £750 million community hospital and services capital fund will be spread over the five years ending in 2010-11. Fourteen capital schemes have been approved, supporting a range of different types of community facilities:

new primary care centre in Washington in Sunderland;

redevelopment of the Gosport War Memorial hospital;

development of a new community health centre in Yate, Bristol;

establishment of a Healthy Living park in Minehead, West Somerset;

redevelopment of the Barking hospital;

new health and social care centre in Teddington;

new primary care centre in Hastings;

redevelopment of the Royal South Hampshire hospital;

new primary care centre in Ashfield;

redevelopment of the Felixstowe community hospital;

new primary care centre in Rotherham;

new community hospital in Bristol;

new community hospital in Hornsey; and

additional community services in Calderdale and Kirklees.

The total cost of these schemes is £94.56 million. £33.6 million has been allocated to primary care trusts in 2007-08 reflecting spending profiles. We do not monitor actual spend on individual schemes at the centre. That is for primary care trusts and their strategic health authorities.

Proposals are assessed against the ten design principles set out in "Our health, our care, our community: investing in the future of community hospitals and services".