Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, further to her answer to written parliamentary question 19983, which department or body holds the patient data recorded using the four categories of severity for myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome that the SNOMED CT codes recognise, namely (a) mild (SCTID: 377181000000104), (b) moderate (SCTID: 377171000000101), (c) severe (SCTID: 377161000000108) and (d) very severe (SCTID: 2897971000000106).

The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.