Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford on 5 November 2019 (HL458), what plans they have for NHS England to require integrated care boards to cease using Individual Funding Requests or Exceptional Funding Requests for liothyronine in cases which meet NHS England’s 2023 Liothyronine—advice for prescribers pathway.

Individual Funding Requests are not intended to be used for rationing treatments, such as liothyronine. All clinical commissioning groups have their own Individual Funding Request policies that enable commissioners to focus on commissioning services that will meet the majority of their local population’s needs without spending funds on services that very few people may need access to.