Question follow-through · 83646

Prescription Drugs

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.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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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

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  1. 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.

  2. 22 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 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 ...

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