Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the report by WPI Economics entitled False economy: How NHS medicine procurement threatens the UK’s Life Sciences growth engine, published in February 2023.

The Department carefully considers all evidence in the public domain on matters relating to the growth and competitiveness of the United Kingdom Life Science sector, including the recent report by WPI Strategy. This happens in combination with broad engagement with individual companies, the National Health Service and with charities and patient representatives. We will continue in future as part of the delivery of the Government’s Life Science Vision.