Karin Smyth

No, I will not, because I want to get through my final comments. We put the new hospital programme on a sustainable footing. I understand that local people across the country were led up the garden path and told something was going to happen. I think we all recognise that the money was not there and that the programme was not on a sustainable footing. We have backed it with the appropriate investment, which is rising to £15 billion over each consecutive five-year wave from 2030, averaging £3 billion a year. The exact profiles of funding will be confirmed at future spending reviews, and that is weighted to ensure that the schemes profiled most are caught in that. We are progressing wave 1, and I will continue to liaise with hon. Members on progress. My message every week to any NHS trust, to any Member of Parliament, to NHS England and to the team running the new hospital programme is that we need to deliver these hospitals. There is a large queue behind them, and we have heard about some of them today. I also understand that a number of colleagues do not have a hospital being progressed in the scheme. The Government are keen to get on with building these hospitals. As hon. Members have said, a lot of this is about trust and commitment. I want hon. Members and anyone paying attention to know that I am clear about the importance of getting on with this programme, delivering on the ground and ensuring that the programme is robust. Finally, alongside increased capital funding, we are improving how that funding is managed. As we have heard, the old processes did not work: a local scheme went to the ICB, to the region, to NHS England, to the Department, to the Treasury and back again, with huge amounts of sign-off but no control or accountability, and with no one locally understanding what was happening. We are transforming that, bringing together a team and streamlining the process, ensuring it is well governed. That will ensure that things happen more quickly, and we are already seeing that. With underspends this year, we have got the money out and into schemes already in the system. We are getting more DEXA scanners. That is how we ensure this happens on the ground. It is up to ICBs to prioritise proposals, and we are working more closely with them to support them to bring things forward. I urge all hon. Members who have spoken today, including my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow West (Gareth Thomas), the hon. Member for Torbay (Steve Darling), my hon. Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (James Naish), the hon. Members for Taunton and Wellington (Gideon Amos), for Sutton and Cheam (Luke Taylor), for Eastbourne (Josh Babarinde) and for North Devon (Ian Roome), to keep working with their local systems on particular schemes. I am happy to keep talking to people. To the hon. Member for Taunton and Wellington, let me say that I have met NHS England about looking at maternity in the area, which I know is a huge concern, and I am happy to meet him. I will get back to the hon. Member for North Devon about some of the numbers he outlined, which are not familiar to me. On another point that was made, we are ensuring that we are building in contingency for the future, because we live in volatile times. Motion lapsed (Standing Order No. 10(6)).