Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which (a) Government Departments and (b) other bodies and organisations are members of the Patient Access to Medicines Partnership.

The Patient Access to Medicines Partnership is a forum for strategic, high-level, discussions on United Kingdom pharmaceutical and medicines access policy. It is constituted of a small group of senior leaders from both industry and government. Its membership is:

- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health & Social Care (co-chair);

- Senior Pharmaceutical Industry Executive (co-chair) – currently Chief Business Officer, Pfizer;

- Department of Health and Social Care;

- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy;

- NHS England;

- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence;

- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency;

- Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries;

- Bio-Industry Association; and

- Charity Medicines Access Coalition.