Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the maximum operating theatre capacity is at Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust; for how many hours per day theatres are used at that trust; and for what reasons operations are cancelled whilst theatre time remains unused at that trust.

This information is not collected centrally. Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust is actively working to minimise the number of operations cancelled on the day as part of a programme of work led by NHS Improvement to support trusts to improve their productivity by reducing late starts and early finishes of scheduled and staffed operating lists.