Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much time is available to opponents of Future Fit in relation Shewsbury and Telford Trust to take the process to judicial review as at 1 January 2020.

The Clinical Commissioning Group’s (CCG) decision on the Future Fit scheme was taken on 29 January 2019. This decision was referred to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, who sought advice from the Independent Reconfiguration Panel. The Secretary of State’s decision was made on 2 October 2019 and was communicated to NHS England and NHS Improvement, CCGs and Telford and Wrekin Council.

Independent legal advice would need to be sought on the timings of bringing a challenge by way of judicial review.