Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to prioritise for addition to the Specials Tariff the shortlist of Specials prepared and agreed by the Royal Colleges of Paediatrics and Child Health and of Ophthalmologists, the Association for Palliative Medicine, the British Association of Dermatologists, Metabolic Medicine, Oral and Mucosal Medicine and the Society for Endocrinology.

Since 2011, for the most commonly prescribed specials a reimbursement price is listed in the Drug Tariff. We have continued to expand the number of products for which there is a reimbursement price listed in the Drug Tariff by prioritising products of the highest cost to the National Health Service or highest prescribing volume, thus reducing the cost and the variation in what the NHS pays.