Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of the Action Plan on Hearing Loss on people with hearing loss.

No specific assessment has been made. Local National Health Service organisations are responsible for commissioning hearing services to meet the needs of the local population.

In 2016, we published ‘Commissioning Services for People with Hearing Loss: A framework for clinical commissioning groups’, which supports integrated care boards in England to provide high quality and integrated care. The framework also addresses inequalities in access and outcomes between hearing services.