Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will request that NHS England publish the criteria for approving a specialised service commissioning policy.

The criteria used for approving specialised service commissioning policy, entitled NHS England’s response to a public consultation "Investing in specialised services" can be found on the NHS England website:

http://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2015/06/nhse-respns-publictn-17-06-15.pdf