Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 43838

NHS: Drugs

Tabled: 3 April 2025
Answered: 8 April 2025

Question

Andrew Rosindell

Reform UK — Romford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the cost of wholesale medications bought by the National Health Service.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Department has well established mechanisms to control the level of spend on medicines. For example, the voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing, access, and growth, the statutory scheme for branded medicines to control their growth in sales, an...
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