Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether (a) NHS England and (b) his Department have received requests from clinical commissioning groups for new or more detailed guidance on non-emergency passenger transport eligibility requirements since 2010.

Information on how many people have used or been refused Patient Transport Services is not held centrally.

Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) replaced primary care trusts on 1 April 2013. A search of the Department Ministerial correspondence database has not identified any correspondence received since 1 April 2013 from CCGs about more detailed guidance on non-emergency passenger transport eligibility requirements. This figure represents correspondence received by the Department’s Ministerial correspondence unit only.