Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress his Department has made on ensuring that repurposed, off-patent drugs are consistently available to NHS patients where evidence supports their use.

Current prescribing arrangements already allow off-patent drugs that are found to have new uses to be prescribed to patients.

The Government and medical research charities are working together to ensure that robust evidence showing new uses for existing drugs can be brought more systematically into clinical practice to benefit patients.