Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Individual Funding Requests NHS England received in (1) 2013–14, (2) 2014–15, and (3) 2015–16 to date, and how many of those requests were accepted in each year.

NHS England has advised the following:

‒ In 2013-14, 1,283 Individual Funding Requests were received, of which 280 were accepted.

‒ In 2014-15, 1,436 Individual Funding Requests were received of which 535 were accepted.

‒ In 2015-16 (up to September 2015), 560 Individual Funding Requests were received of which 163 were accepted.