Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which cities in England do not have an urgent treatment centre.

The cities of Gloucester, Lichfield, Hereford, Lancaster, Bradford, Salisbury, Winchester, Carlisle, Wells, Oxford, Ripon, Worcester do not have an urgent treatment centre (UTC).

Canterbury, Salford and Manchester do not currently have UTCs but plans are in place for delivery during 2020.

The cities of Chelmsford, Exeter, St Albans, Stoke-on-Trent and Sheffield are in health systems that are currently undergoing consultations about service reconfiguration and no decisions about UTC requirement have yet been made.