Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will allocate additional funding to the Royal Shrewsbury hospital to mitigate the level of funding of patients from Wales who use that hospital.

For the current financial year, we are not planning on the assumption that such additional funding is necessary. Funding for patients from Wales comes from the Welsh National Health Service commissioners. This is normally via the English national tariff with recent work to agree that from this year the tariff uplift will be paid in full, with NHS Wales fully engaged in tariff setting arrangements for England. However, as part of the COVID-19 response, tariff payments are currently replaced by block payment arrangements, with NHS Wales following suit.