Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much the NHS Trust Development Authority spent in 2013-14 on the enforcement of the licence conditions as set out on page three of the Partnership Agreement with Monitor; and how much the NHS Trust Development Authority plans to spend in this area in 2014-15.

As part of its oversight and escalation process, the NHS Trust Development Authority asks NHS trusts to self-certify compliance with the licence conditions relating to choice and competition. Therefore, the NHS Trust Development Authority has not incurred related expenditure in 2013-14 and does not plan any expenditure in 2014-15 over and above the costs of the teams that manage the oversight and escalation process more generally.

There were no instances requiring the enforcement of licence conditions set out on page three of the Partnership Agreement with Monitor in 2013-14 and there has been no expenditure. The NHS Trust Development Authority is not planning any spend in this area in 2014-15.