Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to ensure that NHS England's annual prioritisation process for determining investment in specialised services is subject to transparency requirements at the same level as those placed on NICE's health technology appraisal programme.

The Government has laid out its plans to improve transparency in Specialised Commissioning in its recent Treasury Minute in response to the 10th Report of the Public Accounts Committee, Session 2016-17, HC397.

Details of its response can be found at the following address from page 53:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/565426/57448_Cm_9351_Treasury_Minutes_Accessible.pdf