Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made in implementing the recommendations of the Public Accounts Committe report, Services for people with neurological conditions, published on 16 March 2012; and if he will make a statement.

In July 2014, the Treasury published Progress report on the implementation of Government accepted recommendations of the Committee of Public Accounts (PAC) - Sessions 2010­-12 and 2012-13. It sets out progress against the four recommendations made by the PAC in its report Services for people with neurological conditions, with which the Department agreed. Two of the recommendations concerned the development of a neurological conditions dataset (recommendation two) and the neurological conditions quality standard (recommendation six) and they are now shown as being fully implemented.

The changes introduced by the Health and Social Care Act 2012, means that the delivery of recommendations three and five, which concern the means to address certain service improvements and changes to the clinical commissioning group outcome indicator set, are no longer within the Department’s remit. The progress report sets out actions taken relevant to these areas and can be found at the following link:

www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/329001/9781474108553_WEB.PDF.