Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been spent to date by the West, North and East Cumbria Success Regime.

The West, North and East Cumbria Success Regime has been established to help create the right conditions for high quality health and social care to develop in this area. Its aim is to secure improvement by introducing new care models where appropriate, developing leadership capacity and capability across the health system and ensuring collaborative working.

In 2015/16 the total expenditure on the West, North and East Cumbria Success Regime was £1.2 million. Of this, £774,000 was spent on consultancy services and a further £20,000 on legal advice.