Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 4 March 2015 to Question 225086, how many employees of NHS England or people receiving financial reimbursement from NHS England have volunteered to chair clinical reference groups (CRGs); and which CRGs are being chaired by them.

No Clinical Reference Group (CRG) Chair receives financial reimbursement for their role as CRG Chair. Four CRG Chairs are also National Programme of Care Clinical Co-Chairs, all of whom are reimbursed in respect of their role as National Programme of Care Clinical Co-Chairs.

Those CRGs that have Chairs who are reimbursed for their role as National Programme of Care Clinical Co-Chairs are:

Hepatobiliary CRG;

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services CRG;

Neurosurgery CRG; and

HIV CRG.