The claim that Wes Streeting "failed to deliver" the accident and emergency unit at Queen's Hospital contains a mix of accurate and misleading elements. What is accurate: As of the speech date (3 June 2026), a redeveloped A&E at Queen's Hospital had not been delivered. The Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) launched a campaign in January 2025 to secure around £42 million (earlier cited as £35 million) to rebuild/reconfigure the emergency department. By June 2026, a planning application for the refurbishment had only just been submitted to Havering Council (on 1 May 2026), with a decision expected by 31 July 2026, and the trust's own materials stated that "funding is still needed to make the proposals a reality." So the physical rebuild had not occurred. What is misleading or unsupported: The evidence does not show that Wes Streeting made a specific, personal promise to "deliver" a new A&E unit at Queen's Hospital. What the record shows is that Streeting, as Health Secretary and MP for neighbouring Ilford North, has publicly supported the trust's campaign, visited the hospital, praised reductions in corridor care, and spoken about the need for a redeveloped department. The trust and local MPs (including Andrew Rosindell himself) have been lobbying Streeting's department for the funding. Additionally, characterising the situation as a "failure to deliver" is premature: the planning application was submitted only weeks before the speech, and the funding decision was still pending. The Queen's Hospital A&E rebuild was not part of the Conservatives' New Hospitals Programme, so there was no inherited, funded commitment that Streeting then dropped. In short, the A&E redevelopment had indeed not been completed by June 2026, but the framing that Streeting personally promised and then failed to deliver it is not supported by the available evidence, and the process was still actively in train rather than abandoned. Sources: - BHR Hospitals NHS Trust, "£42 million campaign for a new A&E," https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/new-emergency-department-queens-hospital-show-your-support/ - Romford Recorder, "Queen's Hospital Romford A&E transformation plans submitted," https://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/26107289.queens-hospital-romford-e-transformation-plans-submitted/ - Romford Recorder, "Queen's Hospital A&E Romford refurb plan - what we know," https://www.romfordrecorder.co.uk/news/26127328.queens-hospital-e-romford-refurb-plan---know/ - Ilford Recorder, "Wes Streeting praises end to beds in corridor at Queen's," https://www.ilfordrecorder.co.uk/news/26026461.wes-streeting-praises-end-beds-corridor-queens/ - GOV.UK, "NHS experts deployed to tackle corridor care," https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nhs-experts-deployed-to-tackle-corridor-care - Julia Lopez MP, "Presses Health Secretary for urgent update on Queen's Hospital A&E redevelopment," https://www.julialopez.co.uk/news/julia-lopez-presses-health-secretary-urgent-update-queens-hospital-ae-redevelopment - The Havering Daily, "Andrew Rosindell MP Makes Direct Appeal To Health Secretary Over Queen's Hospital 'Corridor Care'," https://thehaveringdaily.co.uk/2026/01/14/andrew-rosindell-mp-makes-direct-appeal-to-health-secretary-over-queens-hospital-corridor-care/