Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when NHS England plans to publish the commercial framework referred to in the policy paper of 5 December 2018 entitled Voluntary scheme for branded medicines pricing and access.

NHS England, with input from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, will develop a ’commercial framework’ setting out the parameters for the commercial approach for medicines in the health service in England. This framework will be tested with and informed through consultation with stakeholders once the voluntary scheme is operational. The intention is to publish the framework early in 2019.