Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS trusts have ever been put in to special administration.
One National Health Service foundation trust has been placed into Trust Special Administration: Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust was placed into Trust Special Administration by Monitor in April 2013.
One NHS trust has been placed into Trust Special Administration: South London Healthcare NHS Trust was placed into Trust Special Administration by the then Secretary of State for Health (Andrew Lansley) in July 2012.