PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Coronavirus: Hospitals (8 June 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the cost to the public purse was of the Nightingale hospitals programme; and how many people were employed at each of the Nightingale hospitals.

Asked by:
Esther McVey (Conservative)

Figures for spend on the Nightingale hospitals in 2020-21 are being finalised and will be published in the National Health Service final accounts in due course.

The Department does not hold the information requested on the number of staff employed at each of the Nightingale hospitals. Staffing was managed by host trusts based on safe staffing levels according to the number of patients requiring care and the type of care provided.

Answered by:
Edward Argar (Conservative)
16 June 2021