Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 12 September 2016 to Question 44481, what records NHS England keeps on the grounds for inadequate ratings given to clinical commissioning groups.

NHS England’s year-end annual assurance assessment of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) contains overall ratings of CCG performance, and explains how they are derived from ratings for leadership, delegated functions, finance, performance and planning also published in the same document:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/07/annual-assessment-rep-2015-16-upd.pdf

All CCGs rated as inadequate are subject to legal directions, published at:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/ccg-auth/directions/

NHS England’s regional teams meet with CCGs regularly, and the frequency of those meetings depends on the level of risk associated with each CCG.