To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the Budget 2013 Red Book, Table 2.5, which capital projects are no longer proceeding as a consequence of the underspend by his Department in 2012-13.

Table 2.5 of the Budget 2013 Red Book shows the difference between Budget 2012 plans and latest forecast of expenditure for 2012-13. For the Department of Health, the table shows an estimated Capital Departmental Expenditure Limits underspend of £0.8 billion against the Budget 2012 plans.

This underspend has arisen mainly because of savings in central capital schemes (including Connecting for Health) and slippage on capital spending plans in the national health service. No capital projects have been stopped or delayed specifically to achieve this underspend.

The Department will set out its spending for the year in detail in its annual accounts in the usual way.