Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many representations he and officials of his Department have received from NHS managers and employees on the financial viability of NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups; and if he will publish those representations.

The Department does not receive direct representations from National Health Service trusts, foundation trusts or clinical commissioning groups on the financial position of those organisations.

Any such representations will come via NHS Improvement or NHS England, who provide the oversight role, working with these local healthcare organisations to make continual assessment of financial performance and sustainability.

These bodies have set out their own plan for delivering financial sustainability for the NHS, in the Five Year Forward View (October 2014) and Strengthening Financial Performance and Accountability document (July 2016). They will publish updates on performance against these plans on a quarterly basis.