To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate she has made of the likely outturn expenditure against plans of Stockport NHS Foundation Trust for 2006-07. (94100)

I am advised by the chairman of Monitor (whose statutory name is the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts) that Stockport NHS foundation trust has forecast in its annual plan that it will achieve break-even in 2006-07. In the first quarter of 2006-07, the trust was on track to achieve the planned full year out-turn. Both the trust’s annual plan and the quarterly monitoring results for the foundation trust sector are publicly available on Monitor’s website at www.monitor-nhsft.gov.uk.