Hospital was being built by bust contractor Carillion

The Royal Liverpool Hospital, left unfinished after Carillion’s collapse, will now not open until at least 2022.

And Steve Warburton, chief executive of Liverpool Hospitals, said the scheme will need an additional £300m more to fix defects on site, almost doubling the overall cost of the scheme.

Royal Liverpool Hospital - September 2019 (24)

Laing O’Rourke has been drafted in to finish the job

Warburton was speaking at Liverpool city council’s social care and health select committee on Tuesday night.