Contracts: Cirencester Hospital

Mr. Clifton-Brown
To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects the second wave independent sector treatment centre contract for Cirencester hospital to be signed.

Mr. Bradshaw
It is currently anticipated that financial close will be reached on the Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Phase 2 independent sector treatment centre scheme, which includes service delivery from Cirencester hospital, in late summer 2007.