Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent investment there has been in Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust; and if he will make a statement.
Jane Ellison, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health: My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State recently visited the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust and was pleased to be able to confirm that the Department has now earmarked £480 million of funding for redeveloping the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. The Department has recently provided £20.6 million of this funding to help progress the development.
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