Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government's planned response to the Hewitt Review will set out (a) his Department's policy on the proposed health improvement strategy, (b) his Department's policy on the proposed establishment of a health, social care and wellbeing board, (c) what steps he is taking to provide long-term funding for ICBs and (d) whether he plans to implement that review's recommendation of a ten-year NHS capital plan from 2024.

The Government has received the Hewitt Review and its wide-ranging recommendations. It is now considering them and will respond in due course.