Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of (a) the capacity of Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services to meet patient demand across England, (b) the estimated number of treatments missed due to delayed transport, and (c) the estimated cost to the NHS of appointments missed for this reason.

I refer the Hon. Member to the answer given on 1 June to Question 1646. The Department has not made a specific assessment of the capacity of non-emergency patient transport services to meet patient demand across England. Data on the number of treatments or appointments missed due to delayed transport, and the associated cost to the National Health Service, is not held centrally.