Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information he holds on whether clinical commissioning groups have made deductions from NHS Continuing Healthcare payments for patients in receipt of a personal health budget.

Neither the Department nor NHS England holds this information.

NHS Continuing Healthcare expenditure in the form of personal health budgets is part of the overall expenditure base of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). The funding provided by CCGs for NHS Continuing Healthcare packages in the form of a personal health budget should be sufficient to meet the needs identified in an individual’s care plan, based on the CCGs knowledge of the costs of services for the relevant needs in the locality where they are to be provided.