Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 83646

Prescription Drugs

Tabled: 20 October 2025
Answered: 26 November 2025

Question

Helen Maguire

Liberal DemocratEpsom and Ewell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the taxpayer of raising NICE’s value for money threshold by 25 percent.

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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