Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospital trusts were put into special measures between September 2012 and July 2018.
The combined total number of individual hospital trusts placed in Special Measures for Quality reasons and/or Special Measures for Financial reasons between September 2012 and July 2018, not double-counting any trusts placed in both types of Special Measures during the specified period, was 39. This figure does not include two ambulance service trusts placed in Special Measures for Quality reasons during the specified period.