Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the timetable is for negotiation of the next pharmaceutical price regulation scheme.

No decision has been made about the timing of negotiations with industry on medicines pricing arrangements for 2019 onwards. The Department has regular and ongoing dialogue with patient representative groups about medicines pricing and access issues, and all those views will help to inform discussions between the industry and the Department on the new arrangements.