Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which NHS trusts have been allocated funding from the Maternity Incentive Scheme; and what the value was of (a) insurance contributions, (b) the share of unallocated funds and (c) all other funding allocated to each trust in 2018-2019.

The maternity incentive scheme is operated by NHS Resolution through the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST) to support National Health Service trusts in improving the quality of maternity services.

Under the scheme, maternity providers pay an increased CNST contribution annually. This fund is redistributed to trusts according to whether they have achieved all 10 safety actions specified under the scheme. Trusts who achieve all 10 safety actions have their increased contribution returned to them. Trusts who do not achieve all 10 safety actions can bid for a sum to help them achieve the actions they have missed. Funds remaining from scheme members who did not achieve all of the safety actions are distributed to successful organisations in proportion to their original contribution.

The attached table shows, for each trust in the scheme, for 2018-19, the value of trust contributions to the maternity incentive scheme, the payments made to trusts from the scheme and trusts’ share of unallocated funds. This data is available online at the following link:

https://resolution.nhs.uk/resources/this-factsheet-provides-information-about-trust-and-health-authority-claims-handled-by-nhs-resolution-in-2018-19/