Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the take-up by patients dialysing at home of the available financial reimbursements.

Provisions are in place for patients receiving haemodialysis treatment at home to be reimbursed by their usual dialysis provider for additional direct energy costs as a result of their treatment. NHS England is increasing access to this utility reimbursement, including communicating directly to all commissioned providers of home dialysis and renal clinical networks to proactively alert eligible patients to these arrangements.