Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans that the new NHS Provider Selection Regime will be implemented and associated guidance published.

The Department and NHS England are currently establishing the Provider Selection Regime. Further information on delivery and the publication on statutory guidance will be available in due course. The rules which will set out the Provider Selection Regime will be subject to Parliamentary scrutiny through the affirmative process before coming into force.