Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the forecast deficit or surplus run for each NHS trust in each of the (a) last and (b) next five years; and if he will make a statement.

Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority, together as NHS Improvement the new regulator for National Health Service providers, published the latest 2015-16 forecast surplus and deficit position for the sector in the “Performance of the NHS provider sector as at 31 December 2015-16” report, in February. A copy can be found on Monitor’s website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-providers-quarterly-performance-report-quarter-3-201516

The NHS’s own plan for the next five years is set out in the “Five Year Forward View” published in October 2014-15. A copy can be found on NHS England’s website:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/5yfv-web.pdf

To support this, and to set out the steps to help local organisations to deliver a sustainable, transformed health service, the leading national health and care bodies in England have come together to publish shared planning guidance for the NHS - “Delivering the Forward View: NHS planning guidance 2016/17 – 2020/21”. A copy can be found via the website link below.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/delivering-the-forward-view-nhs-planning-guidance-for-201617-to-202021