Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her department has made of the adequacy of the number of specialist training spaces required to address the low number of Consultant Neurologists in England.

Regarding specialty training places, I refer the Hon. Member to the answer provided on 8 September in response to Question 23516.

Alongside this, NHS England has introduced several measures to improve care for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), including the Neurology Transformation Programme to support integrated care boards to deliver the right service at the right time for all neurology patients, including those with MS. This programme has developed a national data dashboard for integrated care systems to monitor delivery of MS care, including disease-modifying therapies. NHS England has also developed guidance for systems on improving access to disease-modifying treatments closer to home.