Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of cases where children who have experienced potentially irreversible brain injury have been able to receive ventilation at home after a tracheostomy in each of the last five years.

Information regarding the number of children with potentially irreversible brain injury who have been able to receive ventilation at home after a tracheostomy is not available. Decisions regarding the clinical appropriateness of home ventilation are a local matter and are made by clinicians in discussion with patients, their families and/or carers on a case by case basis.