Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the level of cost improvement expected from the current Liverpool core bundle process.

NHS Improvement informs us that the income value of the Liverpool core bundle is the same in 2018/19 as 2017/18. Regarding provision of community services, the value of the contract for community health services in Liverpool for 2017/18 is £81.6 million. This matches the value of the contract for these services in 2016/17.

NHS Improvement is currently going through a process to agree the future of Liverpool Community Health Trust, and it is anticipated that the bidders for the services will propose cost improvements.