Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer to Question 224945 of 2 March 2015, what estimate he has made of the number of decisions taken by screening panels which are made in error; and if he will make a statement.

NHS England has advised that decisions taken by screening panels are made in accordance with its interim commissioning policy on individual funding requests, which is available at:

www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cp-03.pdf

Its individual funding request screening panels are skilled, experienced and trained in their role and NHS England does not consider that any decisions are made in error.