Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many statutory consultees to each technology appraisal conducted by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in each of the last three years were (a) patient organisations, (b) manufacturers, (c) professional organisations and (d) other organisations.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has advised that the consultees for all technology appraisals over the years 2012-14 can be broken down into the specified groups as follows:

patient organisations: 83 separate patient groups

manufacturers: 52 separate companies

professional organisations: 93 separate professional groups

other organisations: 42 separate other organisations