Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many applications were made to the NHS for Continuing Health Care in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and what proportion of those applications were rejected.

The number of individuals who were referred for a full NHS Continuing Healthcare assessment and those who became eligible for NHS Continuing Healthcare during the relevant year is shown in the attached table due to the size of the data.

It should be noted that the conversion rates are “indicative” in the sense that some of the people found eligible will have been referred for their assessment during the previous year, or will receive their eligibility decision in the subsequent year. It should also be noted that some referrals will be for individuals who never receive an assessment, for example, if the individual has died.