Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 26 June 2014, Official Report, column 279W, on heart diseases, how the budget of £16.9 million for Commissioning through Evaluation announced by NHS England on 6 March 2014 is being allocated between each of the five technologies within the programme.

We understand from NHS England that the budget for Commissioning through Evaluation is being allocated as follows:

- £9 million for three interventional cardiology schemes;

- £4.8 million for selective internal radiation therapy; and

- £1.6 million for selective dorsal rhizotomy.

£1.5 million has been removed from the budget as the renal denervation scheme is no longer being progressed. This is due to recently available research findings.