Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 77063

Rare Diseases: Drugs

Tabled: 15 September 2025
Answered: 13 October 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of NHS England providing formal agreements in principle to pharmaceutical companies that commercial flexibility may be granted for

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
I refer the Hon. Member to the answers my Rt Hon. Friend, the Minister of State for Health gave on 1 September 2025 to Questions 69240, 69241, and 69242.