Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to ensure that the Government's £1billion covid-19 backlog funding will support the physical and mental health of people affected by Parkinson's.

Information on specific allocations through the Elective Recovery Fund to each elective service in England is not held centrally.

As set out in the National Health Service ‘2021/22 priorities and operational planning guidance’, systems are asked to deliver activity levels above set thresholds in order to access this additional funding. This will increase activity including in neurology services for patients affected by Parkinson’s.