Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 41611

Hospitals: Renewable Energy

Tabled: 26 March 2025

Answered: 2 April 2025

Question

Ben Obese-Jecty

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has stipulated that hospitals in the New Hospital Programme include renewable power.

Answer

Karin Smyth

The New Hospital Programme will ensure that new facilities are designed to minimise their carbon footprint, to help achieve the National Health Service’s commitments to implement net zero by 2040 for the emissions it directly controls, and by 2045 for the...

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