Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 17 June 2014, Official Report, columns 566-7W, on NHS: intellectual property, what data has been collected by NHS England on the effectiveness of the existing NHS intellectual property strategy to inform its review.

We understand that NHS England has not considered the effectiveness of an overall intellectual property strategy for the National Health Service. The work underway on the existing NHS intellectual property strategy as part of Innovation Health and Wealth is discrete and is looking solely at intellectual property from a commissioning and innovation perspective.