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Question follow-through · 108028

NHS: Drugs

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of total public outgoings on additional medicine spending over the Spending Review period.

answeredHelen MorganDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
23 Jan 2026
Target answer date
28 Jan 2026
Answer
29 Jan 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 23 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of total public outgoings on additional medicine spending over the Spending Review period.

  2. 28 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 29 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    In relation to the recently announced plans to increase the standard cost-effectiveness threshold used by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), costs will start smaller but will increase over time as NICE approves more life improvi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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