Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide additional resources to healthcare trusts to enable them to bring outsourced services back in-house.

Responsibility for spending decisions rests with individual National Health Service trusts. As public bodies, NHS trusts should maintain the highest standards of rigour, value for money and propriety in the use of public funding. All spending must contribute to organisational objectives and support the delivery of high-quality patient care.

Regardless of how staff are employed, the expectation from the Government is that their pay, terms and conditions remain attractive to support recruitment and retention.