Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the correspondence since March 2020 between the Minister for Patient Safety, Suicide Prevention and Mental Health and the (a) Ombudsman and (b) Chair of the Parliament and Health Service Ombudsman on the use of the severity of injustice scale.

A search of the Department’s correspondence database has shown there are two relevant letters, which are attached.