Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has made an assessment of the effect of the (a) change in the level of funding to NHS Protect and (b) removal of its legal protection unit on the performance of NHS Protect.
Decisions on NHS Protect funding and development or continuation of NHS Protect sections are made on an annual basis. No specific assessment of these has been carried out. Annual NHS Protect plans and reports are available at: