Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the potential surplus or deficit in the NHS Provider sector in each of the next five years.
The Government’s expectation is that the National Health Service will deliver financial balance in each year of the current Spending Review period (2016-17 to 2020-21). This expectation is made clear in the Government’s mandate to NHS England for 2016-17 and the mandate is produced annually.