Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the public purse of the tender process to move adult community services in West Hertfordshire from Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust to Central London Community Healthcare.
We do not centrally hold information on the cost of this specific tender process.
It is for local areas to devise how best to deliver services that meet their local needs and priorities.
These decisions have to be clinically sound and should always be based on the best evidence of patients’ best interests.