Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information will be made available to patients on how NHS England came to the decision routinely not to fund second stem cell transplants for those patients who have relapsed.

Decisions related to the commissioning of National Health Service treatments in England are made by NHS England using a published process that has recently been the subject of a public consultation.

The outcomes of the prioritisation process were published as a news item on the NHS England website (https://www.england.nhs.uk/2016/12/hiv-prevention-pregramme/) and an article was included in the specialised commissioning stakeholder newsletter. In addition, the outcome of the process was emailed to all registered stakeholders for Clinical Reference Groups.