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Question follow-through · 95008

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reverse the long-term decline in the amount spent on medicines as a percentage of the NHS budget.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
26 Nov 2025
Target answer date
1 Dec 2025
Answer
17 Dec 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 26 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reverse the long-term decline in the amount spent on medicines as a percentage of the NHS budget.

  2. 1 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 17 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    We continue to support the United Kingdom’s world leading life sciences sector through investment, innovation and reform as set out in our Life Sciences Sector Plan and 10-Year Health Plan, through which we committed to accelerating growth in net spend on...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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