Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much funding was provided to Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust by the Sustainability Transformation Fund in the 2016-17 financial year; and whether his Department plans to increase the funding from the Sustainability Transformation Fund to that Trust in the 2017-18 financial year.
The general allocation from the Sustainability Transformation Fund to Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in 2016/17 was £1.55 million. Funding from the Sustainability Transformation Fund to trusts for the financial year 2017/18 is currently under consideration and will be announced in due course.