Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the financial viability of Warrington Clinical Commissioning Group.

NHS England and NHS Improvement recently published shared planning guidance on 2 February 2018, in which it was announced that the resources available to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in 2018-19 will be increased by £1.4 billion. This will principally fund levels of emergency activity, additional elective activity needed to tackle waiting lists, universal adherence to the Mental Health Investment Standard and transformation commitments for cancer services and primary care.

As a result of this, NHS Warrington CCG will receive an additional £2.3 million in 2018-19, bringing its allocation for core services to over £282 million, a cash terms growth of more than 3% compared to 2017-18.