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715688

registered interest
date	30/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Community Health Services: Liverpool
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the total expenditure incurred by (a) Bridgewater Community Healthcare and (b) Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trusts was in bidding for the Liverpool community health services contract.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	70185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust report that their costs have not been fully calculated yet.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 18/04/2017 16:32:54 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

715695

registered interest
date	30/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will publish (a) the current selection process for sustainability and transformation leaders, (b) any planned changes to that process and (c) details of the appointment panels now and in the future.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	70157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>Recruitment of staff and remuneration, including in leadership roles, is a decision for individual Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) areas and will vary based on local need. The selection criteria and composition of interview panels is also a matter for STP areas.</p><p> </p><p>All appointments must use a fair process, and leadership appointments are subject to ratification by NHS England and NHS Improvement in line with the national role specification. NHS England will provide funding to cover the costs of the STP leader for at least two days a week pro rata.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat grouped question UIN 70156 question first answered 18/04/2017 14:18:14 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

715696

registered interest
date	30/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of whether the role of sustainability and transformation leaders will in future be standalone posts; and on what salary scale those leaders will be paid.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	70156
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>Recruitment of staff and remuneration, including in leadership roles, is a decision for individual Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) areas and will vary based on local need. The selection criteria and composition of interview panels is also a matter for STP areas.</p><p> </p><p>All appointments must use a fair process, and leadership appointments are subject to ratification by NHS England and NHS Improvement in line with the national role specification. NHS England will provide funding to cover the costs of the STP leader for at least two days a week pro rata.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat grouped question UIN 70157 question first answered 18/04/2017 14:18:14 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

715704

registered interest
date	30/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Community Health Services: Liverpool
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the announcement of 30 March 2017 on the new arrangement to manage community services in Liverpool, whether NHS Improvement plans to reimburse the total costs incurred by all bidders in submitting a bid for the Liverpool community health services contract, in particular Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	70009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>It was a condition of participating in the competition for Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust’s services that NHS Improvement would not reimburse bid costs. The Trusts involved in this process understood that costs resulting from the bid were at undertaken at their own risk.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 18/04/2017 09:49:11 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

715072

registered interest
date	29/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the assurance process used by NHS England was to ensure governance, probity and value for money in the award of salary increases to the Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group governing body members in 2014-15.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	69749
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>In accordance with NHS England guidance and accounting rules, details of the salaries of Executive, general practitioner and lay members of the Clinical Commissioning Group Governing Body are published annually and follow the nationally prescribed format in the Remuneration Report. This forms part of the Annual Report of the clinical commissioning group which is publically available from the clinical commissioning group website and by request.</p><p> </p><p>Remuneration is set by the Remuneration Committee of the Clinical Commissioning Group in accordance with the Clinical Commissioning Group Constitution and NHS England guidance.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has asked NHS England to look into the remuneration of governing body members at the Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 18/04/2017 10:47:52 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

714537

registered interest
date	28/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	NHS Improvement
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of funding allocated to NHS Improvement to undertake appropriate due diligence on NHS contracts.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	69440
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2017 answer text <p>NHS Improvement is resourced to undertake a number of functions, which include working with National Health Service providers to ensure that due diligence processes are completed in a timely and effective manner. In the case of the Liverpool Community Health contract, the publication of the Care Quality Commission report into Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust led to a pause in the transaction.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 69438 69439 69495 question first answered 05/04/2017 12:36:37 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

714538

registered interest
date	28/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Community Health Services: Liverpool
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, under which NHS rules the process which awarded Bridgewater NHS Trust the contract to deliver Liverpool Community services was run; and what the legal framework was underpinning that decision-making process.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	69441
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2017 answer text <p>The legal framework is contained in directions from the Secretary of State to the NHS Trust Development Authority. The procurement process did not trigger the Public Contract Regulations and it was instead structured as a provider to provider transaction.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne grouped question UIN 69437 question first answered 05/04/2017 12:45:11 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

714540

registered interest
date	28/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Clinical Commissioning Groups: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what performance and regulatory framework NHS England operates to ensure that clinical commissioning groups meet standards of good governance; and what powers NHS England has to take action where there are instances of governance failures falling below the standard set in those frameworks.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	69475
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/04/2017 answer text <p>NHS England currently assesses clinical commissioning groups’ (CCGs) governance arrangements through two indicators in the leadership domain of the 2016/17 CCG Improvement and Assessment Framework.</p><p> </p><p>This features a quality of leadership indicator, which reviews the CCG’s governance framework to ensure that responsibilities are clear, regular review is built in, and that quality, performance, and finance risks are understood and managed. Characteristics of strong financial leadership are particularly highlighted.</p><p> </p><p>A probity and corporate governance indicator focuses on conflicts of interest and assesses compliance with a number of requirements of the managing conflicts of interest revised statutory guidance for CCGs, published on 28 June 2016, based on sections 14O and 14Z8 of the NHS Act 2006 (as amended). A requirement of the strengthened guidance is for CCGs to include an annual audit of conflicts of interest within their internal audit plan and to include the findings of this audit within their annual end of year governance statement.</p><p>NHS England is supported by legislation in exercising formal powers of direction, as laid out in section 14Z21 of the NHS Act 2006 (as amended), if it is satisfied that a CCG is failing or is at risk of failing to discharge its functions. This may be applicable in cases of serious or systemic governance failure.</p> answering member constituency Warrington South answering member printed David Mowat question first answered 18/04/2017 08:39:02 answering member 4080 label Biography information for David Mowat
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

714541

registered interest
date	28/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Royal Liverpool University Hospital
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what date is planned for the official opening of the new Royal Hospital Liverpool; whether that date is the originally planned date; and whether any structural problems have been identified within the building.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	69442
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2017 answer text <p>The new Royal Hospital in Liverpool was expected to admit its first patients in the summer of 2017. The projected handover from the contractor to the Trust, following completion of the construction works, was scheduled to be in March 2017. It is then standard to allow a further three months for the Trust to carry out clinical commissioning and for relocation of services before the Hospital is ready to admit patients for treatment. Unfortunately the construction work has been subject to significant delay.</p><p> </p><p>The reasons for delays to the construction timetable have been the discovery of asbestos; issues with using cranes in high winds; a delay in completing a new electrical connection and more recently, the discovery of cracks in some of the concrete beams, for which all remedial work has now been carried out. Clearly, this delay in delivering a new flagship hospital for the people of Liverpool is disappointing. However, we must emphasise that the costs associated with the problems to the new building have to be met by the building contractor and do not fall on the National Health Service. The Trust does not make any payment until the new hospital is finished and is available for use.</p><p> </p><p>Currently the Trust is expecting the contractor to hand over the building at the end of February 2018. The move is then expected to be completed 14 weeks after the handover date.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 05/04/2017 10:34:51 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

714542

registered interest
date	28/03/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group: Pay
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to publish the findings of the review commissioned by the Prime Minister from NHS England on non-executive salaries in Liverpool.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	69443
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/04/2017 answer text <p>The Department has asked NHS England to look into the remuneration of non-executive directors at Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group and to write to the hon. Member once their enquiries are completed.</p> answering member constituency Ludlow answering member printed Mr Philip Dunne question first answered 05/04/2017 13:05:19 answering member 1542 label Biography information for Philip Dunne
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper