Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the likely success of each sustainability and transformation plan.

NHS England and NHS Improvement have been clear that they see Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) as the key means to deliver the goals set out in the Five Year Forward View.

As a result, they have been working with each area to improve proposals and turn these into plans, and continue to work with STPs in turning plans into partnerships.

Each STP will be formally assessed in relation to its performance across a series of priority metrics. An STP dashboard, setting out this assessment, will be published shortly.