At Prime Minister's Questions, Jerome Mayhew MP backed James' campaigning for a new QEH hospital and highlighted support from MPs across Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and Cambridgeshire on behalf of their constituents who rely on the hospital.
Over the last three years, local MPs have been working closely together to make the case for a new QEH hospital on behalf of their constituents and with their local support. This has been a strength of the campaign with MPs lobbying ministers to add QEH to the new hospitals programme.
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Jerome Mayhew MP:
The Prime Minister will be well aware of the dogged campaign of my hon. Friend the Member for North West Norfolk (James Wild) for a rebuild of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn.
That hospital is constructed from failing aerated concrete, and its ceilings are now supported by more than 3,000 wooden and metal props. Is the Prime Minister also aware of the strength of feeling locally in support of the rebuild, not just in North West Norfolk, but in Broadland, North Norfolk, Norwich North, Mid Norfolk, South West Norfolk, Huntingdon, North West Cambridgeshire, and South Holland and the Deepings, whose populations are all served by that hospital? Will he support our campaign?
The Prime Minister:
I thank my hon. Friend and, indeed, my hon. Friend the Member for North West Norfolk (James Wild), because I know that they are great supporters of this project. I know that over the last year or so the Queen Elizabeth Hospital has been allocated over £50 million to address the most immediate issues at the site. I also know that they have expressed their interest in being part of the new hospital programme—the Department of Health and Social Care is looking through all those bids. My hon. Friend will know that I cannot comment on specific bids, but the selected hospitals will be announced in due course.
