Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme

(asked on 4th February 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the written statement of 5 January 2016, HCWS447, what the value is of the payment that will be made to his Department by the pharmaceutical industry in 2016 referred to in that statement.


Answered by
George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
This question was answered on 9th February 2016

The Department publishes the estimated United Kingdom and England Income from the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS) payments on the GOV.UK website.

This information is available to view at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/487575/payment_percentage_2016.pdf

Estimated UK and England income from PPRS payments

£ million

2015/16

2016/17

UK

800

647

England

640

518

Individual PPRS members make quarterly PPRS Payments to the Department in arrears. Each payment, which is based on a company’s quarterly sales report, is made one month after the end of each quarter of the calendar year.

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