Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many successful applications there have been (a) to NHS England’s individual funding requests for specialised services and (b) through the clinically critically urgent criteria process since January 2018.

The number of successful individual funding requests since January 2018 is less than 10, and the true figure has been withheld to protect patient confidentiality. The critically urgent criteria process and decision making ceased on publication of the Specialised Commissioning Service Development Policy, which was published by NHS England on 12 September 2017.