Question follow-through · 83646
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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.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 20 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 26 Nov 2025 · 37 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
20 Oct 2025
Question tabled
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.
22 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Nov 2025
Answer published
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 ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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