Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans that the sections of the Health and Care Act which establish the new NHS Provider Selection Regime will come into force through further regulations.

The Department and NHS England are working to establish the Provider Selection Regime. We will provide an update for when the relevant sections of the Health and Care Act will be commenced, and regulations laid before Parliament, in due course. The regulations which will set out the Provider Selection Regime will be subject to parliamentary scrutiny through the affirmative process before they can come into force.