Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many Individual Funding Requests have been made per Integrated Care Board over the last ten years, and how many of these have been approved.

The majority of individual funding requests (IFR) are actioned by integrated care boards, and there is no central database recording these requests.

NHS England’s IFR Policy provides the framework through which requests outside routinely commissioned arrangements are considered. The IFR framework was last reviewed in 2022 and ensures fairness, consistency, and transparency in decision‑making across all applications relating to medicines, devices, or surgical interventions that fall within NHS England’s commissioning responsibilities.