Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the quality of children's audiology services in England.

We are advised by NHS England that the Improving Quality in Physiological Services programme, run jointly by the United Kingdom of Accreditation Service and the Royal College of Physicians, is raising the profile of accreditation and quality assurance schemes for physiological diagnostic services. A mapping exercise is underway to identify those services which are accredited or working towards accreditation which is an integral improvement step on the pathway to full accreditation as a mark of quality.