Drugs: Prices

(asked on 22nd May 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many commercial agreements NHS England has made with manufacturers of medicines which have r resulted in indication-specific pricing between January 2020 and March 2025; and what therapeutic area these have been for.


Answered by
Karin Smyth Portrait
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 18th June 2025

Information provided by NHS England shows that there have been 74 commercial agreements involving indication-specific pricing arrangements between January 2020 and March 2025. The following table shows the split by therapeutic areas:

Cancer

62

Haematology

5

Other

7

Note: therapeutic areas with fewer than five commercial agreements have been grouped under Other to avoid identification of specific commercial deals.

Reticulating Splines