Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a population health model of strategic leadership in order that communities can determine local health priorities.

We have no plans to make such an assessment. The Health and Care Bill establishes new National Health Service bodies known as integrated care boards (ICBs) and requires the creation of integrated care partnerships (ICP). Each ICB and their partner local authorities will be required to establish an ICP, bringing together health, social care, public health, and other perspectives, such as social care and housing providers, to develop a strategy to address the needs of the population in the area.