Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with NHS England and regulatory bodies about the work of the NHS in Devon.

On behalf of Ministers, officials in the Department’s NHS Business Unit have contacted NHS England, the Care Quality Commission, Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority about a range of matters related to the NHS in Devon over the last six months, including information relating to ministerial visits, correspondence and parliamentary questions.

We understand that the Northern Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group is currently considering the services it commissions. However the provision of health services is the responsibility of the local NHS.