Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the oral contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health of 14 September 2016, Official Report, column 998, if he will deposit a document in the Library describing how stakeholders will be consulted as part of the NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans.

Guidance on consultation as part of the National Health Service Sustainability and Transformation Plans, entitled ‘Engaging local people’ was published on the 15 September 2016. A copy has been placed in the Library and is also available at the following address:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/engag-local-people-stps.pdf