Community Hospital Funding

Martin Linton
20. To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding she plans to allocate to community hospitals and services in London in each of the next three years; and if she will make a statement.

Andy Burnham
Strategic health authorities are responsible for submitting prioritised bids for funding from the community hospitals and services programme. We are not yet able to say how much funding London will get from the programme as this will depend both on the nature of the bids that are submitted by London SHA, as well as the bids submitted by other SHAs. To date we have agreed to fund three schemes in the London SHA area totalling £10.64 million and there are no bids from London outstanding from previous waves.