Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 18 October 2017 to Question 106946, how much from the public purse was spent on post-transplant stem cell treatment by (a) NHS England and (b) clinical commissioning groups in each of the last three years.

NHS England Specialised Commissioning funds blood and marrow transplantation which includes the costs associated with preparations for transplant (30 days before) and post-transplant care (100 days). Spend on these elements is not separately reported.

Depending on patient and clinical factors, there are a number of treatments that patients might require within or after 100 days of transplant, which are also provided to other patient groups. Therefore, more detailed information about spend on post-transplant stem cell treatment is not broken down separately within each organisation’s respective accounts and is not available to report.