Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the report to be produced by the independent consultants analysing the responses to the consultation by NHS England on the reconfiguration of congenital heart disease services will be made public at the same time it is sent to NHS England.

This is a matter for NHS England. No decisions have been made regarding NHS England’s Congenital Heart Disease service change proposals.

NHS England has advised that they intend to publish the independent report regarding the consultation responses in full, and they anticipate that the report will be published alongside the papers provided to the NHS England Board to enable it to reach its commissioning decisions.