Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the recommendations of the review conducted by Dr Bill Kirkup, Report of the Liverpool Community Health Independent Review, published in January 2018.

NHS Improvement, NHS England, the Care Quality Commission and officials from the Department have met and have agreed in principle to provide a joint response to the report. This response is being coordinated by NHS Improvement.

NHS Improvement will consider their response to the Kirkup report at their public Board meeting on 22 March 2018.