To ask Her Majesty's Government in each of the past three financial years, how many (a) NHS hospital trusts, and (b) primary care trusts, have been required by the Government to re-order their finances because of their deficits. [HL5283]

The number of National Health Service (NHS) trusts and primary care trusts (PCTs) that ended each of the previous three financial years in deficit are shown in the following table.

Each of these organisations developed financial recovery plans locally with its strategic health authority (SHA), which were in turn agreed by the department. The department was not directly involved with the recovery plans of individual organisations.

Notes:

¹ In addition, there were eight further NHS trusts reporting a deficit due to technical accounting reasons, relating either to the IFRS impact on impairment funding or phasing issue relating to a part-year foundation trust, and are not part of the organisation’s underlying operating position.