Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, which Ministers of his Department have met with NHS Improvement and the Care Quality Commission in which weeks since 11 July 2016; and at which of those meetings specific accident and emergency department closures were discussed.

Ministers have regular meetings with NHS Improvement and the Care Quality Commission to discuss a variety of issues.

The redesign and delivery of front-line health services is a matter for the local National Health Service – clinically led by front-line NHS organisations and clinicians who are closest to the needs of communities and therefore best-placed to make decisions in the interests of their patients.