Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 9 January 2017 to Questions 58635, 58636, 58637, 58638, 58639, what the recurrent contract value is in the contract let by Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group for Liverpool community health services to be provided by Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust from 2017-18.

We are informed by NHS England that the contract for 'core services' which will be let by NHS Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) on behalf of the CCG, Liverpool City Council and NHS England has not yet been let. Following a transaction process led by NHS Improvement (NHSI), Bridgewater NHS Foundation Trust (FT) has been identified as the preferred bidder, and the submission is being assured by NHSI. When let, the existing Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust contract will novate to Bridgewater NHS FT. As such, and as with all other major National Health Service contracts, there is no specific end point.

The accepted bid for 2017/18 is for £77 million recurrent funding, the same level as for the current year.