Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many NHS trusts have (a) responded to the request from NHS England and Monitor to choose between the Enhanced Tariff Option and the Default Tariff Rollover for 2015-16 and (b) reserved the right to challenge those new tariff arrangements.

A total of 211 out of 241 NHS trusts and foundation trusts (88% of all providers) have opted for the Enhanced Tariff Option (ETO). Of these, 90 were NHS trusts as opposed to NHS foundation trusts. Four NHS trusts wrote to Monitor reserving their right to legal challenge (one of whom had chosen the ETO option but placed conditions on this). The remaining NHS providers have either chosen or defaulted to the Default Tariff Rollover option.