Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has had recent discussions with the Treasury on health recovery funding for disabled children.

The Department regularly discusses a range of issues with HM Treasury.

To tackle the elective backlog, in September 2021 the Government agreed an additional £1 billion this year and £8 billion over the next three years, which will deliver an additional nine million checks, scans and operations to reducing waiting times, including for disabled children. We are also working with the Department for Education and NHS England and NHS Improvement to improve the provision of health services for disabled children.