Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what financial reports (a) his Department, (b) NHS England and (c) NHS Improvement have received since placing University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust in special measures; and if he will publish those reports in the Library.

NHS Improvement is responsible for overseeing foundation trusts and National Health Service trusts and, as part of its remit to support these providers deliver financially sustainable healthcare, will lead on all direct action needed with providers in financial difficulty. This may include placing a provider into special measures for financial reasons as a regulatory measure to bring about swift improvement in challenged NHS providers’ finances. With the help of these measures, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is making progress, and plans to achieve financial balance in 2019-20.

All trusts under these measures will provide routine monthly financial reports to NHS Improvement. These are in the public domain and published as part of the Board papers on trusts’ websites.

Financial reports on specific trusts in financial special measures are not routinely collected by the Department or NHS England.