Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the proposal from the Epsom and St Helier Trust to downgrade or close services at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals to make way for a new acute hospital in Sutton, whether any such proposal has been included in the Surrey Heartlands Sustainability and Transformation Plan.

Any decision regarding service changes is a matter for NHS England and the National Health Service locally.

The Surrey Heartlands Sustainability and Transformation Plan refers to the need to make progress on an estates solution for Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals but does not make proposals to downgrade or close services at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals.