Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to page nine of the briefing document, STPs and accountable care, published by NHS Providers on 15 January 2018, what the four areas are where a procurement process to establish an accountable care organisation is underway; what stage each of those processes has reached; and if he will place a copy of any agreement or memorandum of understanding between those areas and NHS England and NHS Improvement in the Library.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave on 29 January to Question 123830.

Procurement law applies in the same way where an Accountable Care Organisation contract is in place, as in all other circumstances.