Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review the decision taken by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to proceed with the creation of a wholly owned subsidiary company.

An NHS Improvement panel reviews each business case and underlying financial projections to consider the level of inherent risks associated with the proposals to set up a subsidiary. The review considers the specific aims of the business case alongside the overarching governance, financial, quality and operational impacts of the proposals on the trust, the wider health system and its patients.