Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department provided for transport for patients to attend appointments in each year for which information is available.

Neither the Department nor NHS England hold the information requested.

NHS England allocates funding to clinical commissioning groups (CCGs). Individual CCGs are responsible for commissioning local services, such as patient transport services, based on population need.

It is for local leaders working together with NHS England and NHS Improvement, to make the best use of the funding that has been allocated to them.