Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much money will be devolved to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to coincide with the transfer of obesity surgery commissioning responsibilities from NHS England to CCGs in April 2016; and what NHS England spent on such services in (a) 2014-15 and (b) 2015-16.

Any transfer of budget from NHS England to devolved areas will be on the basis of existing contractual activity.

For England, the expenditure against morbid obesity for adults totalled £50.36 million in 2014/15.

NHS England is not able to provide a figure for devolvement on 1 April 2016 as the basis for calculating the figures is still being discussed.