Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many individual patient funding requests have been approved for the use of Kuvan.

NHS England has advised that they have, over the last three years, received fewer than 10 Individual Funding Requests applications and therefore there have been fewer than 10 approvals relating to the use of Kuvan.

The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has not had further recent discussions with the manufacturer (BioMarin) since the oral contribution of my Rt. hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Mental Health and Inequalities (Jackie Doyle-Price).