Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure that the outcomes of applications for funding to cover one off lump sum payments for frontline NHS staff employed by social enterprises are decided by the end of the financial year.

The Department is working closely with NHS England to finalise the outcomes of the applications, and has committed to communicating these directly to the organisations, ahead of the end of the financial year.