Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his Answer of 28 November 2012 to Question 129969, how many recipients there have been of £25,000 Skipton Fund top-ups who had previously received a Skipton Fund stage two payment of £25,000.

To date, there have been 787 (out of a possible 886) top-up payments made by the Skipton Fund to individuals in the United Kingdom (or their estates if the individuals have died) who had previously received a Skipton Fund stage two payment of £25,000. There are currently 99 unpaid top-up payments to individuals (or their estates) who had previously received a Skipton Fund stage two payment of £25,000. These 99 remain unpaid because out of date contact details have meant that efforts at contacting these individuals were unsuccessful.