Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what date his Department expects Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust to publish its full business case in relation to the Liverpool community health service contract.

In November 2016, NHS Improvement announced Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as the preferred future provider of Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust's Liverpool services. This was subject to NHS Improvement undertaking detailed financial and regulatory checks on both Trusts’ plans before confirming the new arrangements ahead of a start date of 1 July 2017.

Full business cases for such transactions, which may contain commercially sensitive information, are not usually published by NHS Improvement.

On 7 February 2017, NHS Improvement announced it was pausing plans to transfer services from Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust to Bridgewater Community NHS Foundation Trust in order to perform additional evaluation of plans to transfer services.