Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress he has made on the implementation of Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships; and if he will make a statement.

In 2017, NHS England and NHS Improvement announced that the most mature sustainability and transformation partnerships (STPs) would evolve to become ‘integrated care systems’. Over the past year we have seen real progress, with the first group of these systems becoming operational in April. At NHS England and NHS Improvement’s board-in-common meeting in May, it was announced that another four STPs would become integrated care systems in 2018-19: Gloucestershire, Suffolk and North East Essex, West, North and East Cumbria, and West Yorkshire and Harrogate.