Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will review the decision to break-up the services previously provided by a single block contract by Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust into 13 separate contracts during the recent procurement process; and what the role was of (a) Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group and (b) NHS Improvement in making that original decision.

No review is due to take place. Following the procurement process local commissioners, comprised of Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, the local councils and NHS England, took the decision to separate services in the interests of local patients.