Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of sustainability and transformation plans that he has received which will achieve the savings targets identified.

The Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) submitted on 21 October 2016 demonstrate tangible progress in addressing this financial gap referred to in the NHS Five Year Forward View.

Providers and commissioners are currently in the process of agreeing two-year operating plans and contracts for financial years 2017-19. Once agreed, these plans will form the basis for the first two years of implementation of the STPs.