Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, puruant to the Answer of 14 July 2014 to Question 204249, what the reason is for the time taken to publish the sunset review of innovation and improvement bodies.

The sunset review of innovation and improvement bodies was an internal review which helped shape long term plans for a number of organisations, including the 15 academic health science networks.

National Health Service England advises that the publication of this review has been superseded by a five-year forward view of innovation, led by the national clinical director for innovation, which will be published shortly. There are no plans to publish the review.