Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long Term Plan and NHS Planning Guidance commitments for 2019-20, what progress his Department has made against the commitment to invest up to £2 million a year in programmes to reduce violence, bullying and harassment toward NHS staff; and if he will make a statement.

An investment of £2 million a year in programmes to reduce violence, bullying and harassment toward National Health Service staff will be set out in the final People Plan to be published after the spending review later this year. Over the summer, we will develop a new offer with our people setting our explicitly the support they can expect from the NHS as a modern employer including creating a healthy, inclusive and compassionate culture, with a focus amongst other things on tackling bullying and harassment, violence and abuse.