Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many applications for exceptional case funding have been (a) lodged and (b) granted for clinical negligence claims involving the death of a child of where the claimant is the child in each of the last six years.

From the inception of the Exceptional Case Funding (ECF) scheme in April 2013, there have been no applications for ECF either lodged or granted for clinical negligence claims within this description.