Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what criteria he plans to use to allocate the funds announced in the Spring Budget 2017 for GP surgery co-location in hospital accident and emergency departments.

The Department will manage the approval of funding to accident and emergency (A&E) departments based on recommendations from NHS England and NHS Improvement, according to the merit of individual bids according to the impact they will have on managing A&E pressures. This may include, for example, bids from trusts to provide additional permanent or temporary buildings and/or better use of existing space to allow general practitioners to locate next to A&Es. The allocations for successful bids will be agreed in the next five weeks.