Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to support Royal Blackburn Hospital's accident and emergency department.

The provision of accident and emergency services at the Royal Blackburn Hospital is a matter for the local National Health Service.

The Pennine Lancashire System Resilience Group is responsible for overseeing system performance and the effective delivery of urgent and emergency care locally.

We are making additional resources available to the NHS to deal with increased demand, by backing the NHS Five Year Forward View with £10 billion a year real terms additional funding by 2020-21, compared to 2014-15, and £3.8 billion real terms growth in 2016-17.