Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many hospitals are complaint with the Accessible Information Standard.

Information on how many hospitals are compliant with the Accessible Information Standard is not held centrally.

Compliance with the Standard is a legal duty and organisations that provide National Health Service care or adult social care have been required to follow the Standard in full since 1 August 2016. Compliance with the Standard is also a requirement of the NHS Standard Contract 2018/19.

The specification for the Standard makes it clear that commissioning organisations must actively support compliance by organisations from which they commission services and must also seek assurance from providers in this regard.