Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people have applied to register with (a) the Skipton Fund and (b) MFET Limited since the inception of those bodies; and how many such applications have been (i) accepted and (ii) rejected.

According to the Skipton Fund database, as at 30 September 2014, 6,871 people had registered with the Skipton Fund in the United Kingdom since its establishment in 2004. Of those, 6,181 submitted completed application forms for assessment. Of the 6,181 applications received, 5,181 were approved and 701 were declined; the remaining 299 are unresolved applications pending responses to requests for further information.

When MFET Ltd was established in 2010, all 393 living Macfarlane Trust and Eileen Trust primary beneficiaries automatically became MFET Ltd beneficiaries. It is not possible to be rejected by MFET Ltd since registration is automatic for everyone who is successfully registered as a primary beneficiary with the Eileen Trust or Macfarlane Trust. Since MFET Ltd was established, two new applications to be beneficiaries of either the Macfarlane Trust and Eileen Trust have been accepted, and one has been rejected.