Rebecca Paul

Rebecca Paul

Conservative — Reigate

Speaking in the House of Commons on 23 April 2025

Debate

Hospitals

Contribution

I can confirm to the hon. Member that if the Conservatives were in power, we would be delivering that hospital. I want to be clear: the trust is ready to move forward, and clinical consensus has been secured; what is now urgently needed is commitment from the Government to drive the programme forward. After all, patients and staff alike deserve better than to spend another decade or more in facilities that are not fit for modern healthcare delivery. They deserve to know that promises made through the new hospital programme will be honoured, not quietly shelved or endlessly deferred by this Government. I urge Ministers in the strongest possible terms to look again at the decision to delay Sutton emergency care hospital and to provide the long-term certainty the trust needs to proceed—not in 2035, but now.

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