Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the Answer of 25 February 2014, Official Report, column 279W and 28 February 2014, Official Report, column 583W, on NHS: innovation, for what reason NHS England has not published the minutes of the meetings referred to in the Answers; and if he will direct NHS England to publish those minutes.

The remit of patient and public engagement now falls to NHS England’s new Patient and Public Voice Assurance Group which met for the first time in June 2014.

Discussions about the publication of the minutes of the Patient and Public Voice Assurance Group are ongoing.

The Patient and Public Engagement Steering Group is no longer in existence and NHS England has no plans to publish the minutes of the Patient and Public Engagement Steering Group.