Orkambi

(asked on 2nd July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the oral Answer of the Prime Minister to the hon. Member for Erith and Thamesmead of 16 May 2018, Official Report, column 276, whether officials of his Department have met with the Prime Minister to discuss negotiations between NHS England and Vertex on the supply of the drug Orkambi.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 9th July 2018

No officials from the Department have met with the Prime Minister to discuss Orkambi. However, my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care met with the hon. Member for Dudley North (Ian Austin), the Rt. hon. Member for Hemel Hempstead (Sir Mike Penning), the hon. Member for Sutton and Cheam (Paul Scully), the hon. Member for Erith and Thamesmead (Teresa Pearce) and the chief executive of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, David Ramsden, on 4 July to discuss negotiations between NHS England and Vertex on the availability of Orkambi in the United Kingdom.

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