Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the effect on the internationally recognised adult congenital heart disease research team at the Royal Brompton Hospital as a result of the proposed closure of congenital heart disease services at that hospital.

No decision has been made to close the congenital heart disease service at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.

The congenital heart disease standards agreed by the NHS England Board in July 2015 include sub-categories that cover both research and using a network approach. The standards have been designed to support a continued collaborative approach to develop and sustain research and good practice.