Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 2 March 2015 to Question 224947, for what reasons the data requested is aggregated over the three years 2012-14; and if he will provide the figures for (a) 2012, (b) 2013 and (c) 2014 separately.
I regret that the information in my answer of 2 March 2015 was not provided in the format requested. I apologise for this oversight.
The information is shown in the table1.
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
Patient organisations | 46 | 39 | 40 |
Manufacturers | 18 | 22 | 32 |
Professional organisations | 58 | 47 | 49 |
Other organisations | 23 | 12 | 13 |
1 Some organisations will be involved in more than one year.
Source: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence