Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many innovations of each type have been identified and recorded in each year following the implementation of the Cquin pre-qualification of the commercialisation of intellectual property.

NHS England is responsible for the intellectual property strategy for the National Health Service.

NHS England has advised that, as part of the Innovation Health and Wealth work programme, it has undertaken a review of the existing NHS intellectual property strategy and is revisiting this as part of its refresh of Innovation Health and Wealth which is currently being undertaken.