§ Brian CotterTo ask the Secretary of State for Health when his Department will reach a decision about whether to build an extension at Weston General Hospital for accident and emergency cases. [71222]
§ Ms BlearsNo bid has been submitted by the Weston Area Health Service Trust for an extension to Weston General Hospital for accident and emergency cases. The trust did submit a bid for a diagnostic and treatment centre to be developed in the existing newly built extension at the hospital at a cost of £2.1 million. On 15 August we announced investment of £39 million for ten more diagnostic and treatment centres in the next two years which will in total treat over 25,000 extra cases a year, the Weston Area Health NHS Trust was one of these.