Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether any other Government departments provide funding for the (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment of (i) interstitial lung disease and (ii) idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

The Department has made no arrangements with other Government Departments for funding the diagnosis and treatment of interstitial lung disease and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

NHS England is responsible for the commissioning of interstitial lung disease services and funds the high cost anti-fibrotic treatments which treat these diseases. Access to these treatments has recently been widened to people with non-idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis with the publication of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Technology Appraisal 747 in November 2021.