Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the affordability of the Hospitals Transformation Programme was included in the plans to improve hospital services in Shropshire.

The Hospital Transformation Programme or ‘Future Fit’ scheme, was assessed for affordability as part of the bidding process to become one the schemes within the sustainability and transformation partnership programme. Furthermore, any plans to improve hospital services that require significant Government funding, like the Future Fit scheme, will have their capital and revenue affordability assessed as part of the Departmental and NHS England and NHS Improvement business case assurance process