Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will ask NHS England to publish the minutes of meetings of the high cost device steering group at which the recommendation was made to remove subcutaneous implantable cardiac defibrillators from the high cost device exclusion list.

There is no plan to publish the minutes. It is important to note that the discussions about removing implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICD) devices from the high cost list related to all ICDs not just the subcutaneous ICDs.