Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many officials of his Department have core responsibilities which include non-emergency patient transport?

The Department does not have a separate team in which members are working solely full-time on non-emergency patient transport. Officials from across the Department work flexibly and may have a role in these areas alongside contributions from officials in NHS England and NHS Improvement in relation to this work.

Non-emergency patient transport performance data is not collected centrally, and there are currently no plans to collect such data.