Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on meeting the target of introducing front-door clinical streaming in all accident and emergency departments by October 2017.

£100 million of capital funding has been made available for primary care streaming in accident and emergency departments. This was confirmed in the budget statement of 8 March 2017. Since then 91 trusts have been successful in bidding for this funding with a total of £76 million allocated. Each of these trusts has confirmed that this will add or increase capacity for clinical streaming. NHS England and NHS Improvement remain committed to have streaming in all emergency departments by October 2017.