Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 112596

Surgery: Contracts

Tabled: 11 February 2026
Answered: 24 February 2026

Question

Stuart Andrew

ConservativeDaventry

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department’s policy is on managing NHS trusts that are not meeting elective recovery targets where services are delivered under block contract arrangements.

Answer

Karin Smyth
Integrated care boards (ICBs) are responsible for the commissioning of elective care services, based on the needs of their population.The NHS Payment Scheme is the set of rules, prices, and guidance that determine how providers of National Health Service-...

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