Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what ministerial oversight there is of the capped expenditure process.

The National Health Service has set out its own plan to maximise spending within funding limits, and deliver financial balance and sustainability. The capped expenditure process is a key part of that plan and will help all areas to deliver quality, safe and improving patient care within a financially sustainable system.

Ministerial oversight is embedded in the governance mechanisms already in place to support and hold to account the NHS leadership bodies for delivery of their overall financial plan.