Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential effect on the (a) time taken to receive and (b) quality of assessments for dyspraxia of CCGs opting not to fund dyspraxia assessments with Dyspraxia UK; and if he will make a statement.

We have made no such assessment. Commissioning decisions are made locally by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). CCGs are best placed to do this as they are clinically led organisations that have both the local knowledge and local accountability to make commissioning decisions in the best interests of their populations.