Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what amount of revenue funding allocated to the East Cheshire NHS Trust for 2017-2018 under the Cheshire and Merseyside sustainability and transformation partnership process has been paid.

National Health Service providers (NHS trusts and foundation trusts) fund their spending via income received from NHS commissioners in return for the provision of healthcare services to their local population. They do not receive funding allocations via their sustainability and transformation partnership. They do receive payments from the Sustainability and Transformation Fund, which rewards NHS providers for achieving their own individual finance and performance targets. In 2017-18, East Cheshire NHS Trust received total payments of £6.9 million from this fund.