Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 82314

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence: Costs

Tabled: 15 October 2025
Answered: 26 November 2025

Question

Steve Barclay

ConservativeNorth East Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of increasing the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence cost-effectiveness threshold by 25%.

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
The pharmaceutical sector and the innovative medicines it produces are critical to our national interest, helping people access life changing treatments, reducing pressure on the health service over the longer-term, and ensuring we have a National Health ...

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