Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the planned consultation highlighted in Monitor's publication "The new NHS provider licence", what plans they have to implement the risk pool levy in order to ensure the continuity of commissioner-requested services in the event of provider failure; and whether such a levy system will be implemented in 2015–16.

There are currently no plans to implement the risk pool or risk pool levy in 2015 or later. The Department may review the implementation of a risk pool position at a later date once there is a better understanding of the Commissioner Requested Services market.