Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent progress his Department has made on the (a) composition and (b) operation of the individual funding requests screening process; and if he will make at statement.

NHS England has advised that updated standard operating procedures for NHS England’s management of individual funding requests was published on 26 February 2016 and is available at:

www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/policies/gp/

Clinical commissioning groups are responsible for managing their own individual funding requests.