Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of re-establishing a Children's accident and emergency service in Southport Hospital.

NHS England is working with Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust, St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and National Health Service commissioners to develop plans for emergency services for children at the Ormskirk site. Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust is undertaking a review of the workforce in emergency care pathways, including the children’s emergency service at Ormskirk.