Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to HM Treasury's press release, Chancellor announces £4.5 billion of measures to bring down debt, published on 4 June 2015, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of existing contracts on the deliverability of the savings expected from his Department in 2015-16.
We will shortly publish a consultation on how best to implement these savings in ways that minimise impact on services.