Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the National Institute for Health Research has reported to his Department the results of the research commissioned on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme is funding a systematic review of evidence on the benefits, harms and costs of treatments for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

The researchers have sent the report of the review to the NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, based at the University of Southampton, which manages the HTA programme on behalf of the Department. The report is expected to be published in the journal Health Technology Assessment in January 2015.