Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his oral contribution of 7 January 2019, Official Report column 80, when he plans to publish the local provision funding increases for the first year of the NHS Long Term Plan.

NHS England set clinical commissioning group (CCG) allocations. The National Health Service published draft five-year CCG allocations for 2019/20 to 2023/24 on 10 January 2019 at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/draft-ccg-allocations-2019-20-to-2023-24-core-services/

These are subject to final approval by the NHS England Board on 31 January 2019.