Coun David Martin (Ash Ind), was speaking at a meeting of the committee on February 12.
He said: “Back in 2019 when the Conservative Government was elected, they promised to build 40 hospitals across the country and Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) and City Hospital were part of that plan.
"That programme got delayed because of the ‘cumbling concrete’ programme and whatever.
"And now, since Labour were elected, we find now that the rebuilding of the new QMC is going back to be beyond 2030.
"I propose that we write to invite Health Secretary Wes Streeting to this committee to answer the question as to when we’re actually going to get this built.
"These things take a long time and I’m saying that we need to do it now as some of us here now may not be in the room any more after the election.
"I think it’s important that we put this in place before the election because it takes a very long time on the rebuild programme and I don’t think we’ve had a proper answer from this Government.
"So I think we need to demand answer or at least an update before the March meeting of this committee as to when that rebuild is going to take place.”
Coun Roger Jackson (Con), committee chair, said: “I have actually written to Wes Streeting, on behalf of this committee, about this, and it’s basically that this Government is prioritising where it spend its money.
"And the NHS is clearly not an important thing as QMC is actually fairly advanced, it has a team in place doing the work that what was needed.
"But unfortunately, loads of hospitals that then had RAAC concrete problems have now been prioritised ahead of that.”
Katherine Harclerode, lead officer for health scrutiny, added that Nottingham Univeristy Hosptials (NUH) – which runs QMC and City Hospitals – would be providing an update on the Tomorrow’s NUH programme and how the decisions on the new hospitals programme will affect that, in due course.
She said: “We don’t have answers today but we will hopefully have a good discussion about it in March.”