Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 April 2018 to Question 135633, on Orkambi, whether his Department has also written to NHS England in similar terms to encourage them to treat negotiations with urgency.
The Department has not written to NHS England separately. NHS England are in full agreement with the Department regarding the urgency of negotiations. Officials from NHS England are meeting frequently with Vertex.