Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 3 November 2009.
Liam Byrne
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury
2:30,
3 November 2009
We are very proud of the fact that under this Government, the national health service now has 100 new hospitals, which have been built through the increases in capital expenditure. That means that the NHS estate is now in a completely different shape. We plan capital spending to continue at different kinds of levels in the future, but even by 2013-14 we expect capital expenditure to be higher than the levels we inherited. Of course, there will be trusts around the country that will also choose to use the different flexibilities that they have, such as the private finance initiative or internally generated resources, but our determination to carry on with the business of modernising the NHS is undiminished.