Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the effectiveness of Sativex for the treatment of multiple sclerosis.
The Department has made no recent assessment.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) most recent assessment of Sativex was published in November 2019 and is available on the NICE website at the following link:
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng144/chapter/Recommendations#spasticity