Written question WQ82587
- Asked by
- Andrew RT DaviesConservative
- To be answered by
- Minister for Health and Social Services
- Tabled
- Due
- Answered
- Time to answer
- 9 days
Question
Will the Minister provide a breakdown of the costs of setting up, running and dismantling Welsh Nightingale hospitals and provide costs if some have been dismantled and set up again?
Answer
Answered by Minister for Health and Social Services
Costs in 2020-21
£m
Set Up
112.987
Decommissioning
23.093
Capital funding provided
16.522
In addition, £362m has been provided to health boards to support their local surge capacity plans, which include the costs of providing and staffing additional hospital bed capacity, including critical care and the running costs of field hospitals.
To date, no field hospitals have been dismantled and set-up again.