Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 7 September 2015 to Question 8139, what (a) correspondence and (b) meetings Ministers and officials in his Department have had with Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust on patients being admitted to private facilities outside Lancashire in 2014.

There has been no such correspondence or meetings. These are operational matters for the Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust.