Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects to appoint a provider of Liverpool community trust services; and what criteria are being used to identify that provider.

NHS Improvement has informed us a decision on the preferred provider is expected to be made by the end of September, and the transaction completed by 1 April 2018. The criteria that will be used to assess the proposals cover the four key domains of financial sustainability, deliverability, clinical quality and strategic context.

The recurrent and non-recurrent funding envelope, as well as the duration of the non-recurrent funding, is currently being determined by the Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group.