The national health service locally in my hon. Friend’s constituency is continuing to consider the future of the Standish hospital site and is exploring the potential to develop services that would benefit the people of Gloucestershire. We expect the decision to be made shortly.
I thank my hon. Friend for that and commend him on visiting the site. He knows what a beautiful site it is and what potential it has. It would be good to hear that progress is being made. Indeed, I gather from what is happening that this innovative scheme between the learning and disabilities trust, the primary care trust and the voluntary sector will become a reality, so anything that he can do to help it along will be gratefully welcomed in the area.
I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that and for the invitation to visit his constituency, which I recall I did on an extremely wet spring day. My understanding is that the main obstacle to progress is the listing of part of a building on the site. May I suggest to my hon. Friend that he make representations to my right hon. Friend the Minister of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, if he has not already done so, to ensure that she is well aware of his views on the merits or otherwise of listing that building?