Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to continue to provide additional funding to cover increases in market rents in buildings from which clinical commissioning groups commission services.

The Department has provided an additional £127 million to the NHS England Mandate to fund the increased costs within the National Health Service of this policy change. Where the occupier delivers services that are commissioned by a clinical commissioning group or NHS England they are expected to be reimbursed the impact of the application of the market rents policy with effect from 2016/17 financial year by the relevant commissioning body.