Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the announcement in paragraph 1.97 of the March 2016 Budget, on funding for child prosthetics, (a) by what mechanisms people can access, (b) who is able to apply for, (c) what the criteria is for accessing, (d) how many people have received and (e) who is responsible for distributing such funding.
The Department is currently working on plans for how best to distribute the £1.5 million of funding for child prosthetics and will set out comprehensive details once the plans are finalised.