Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department last reviewed reimbursement prices for pharmaceutical companies licensed to supply entacapone only products.

Reimbursement prices paid to community pharmacies for dispensed medicines are reviewed on a monthly basis. For example, the reimbursement price for entacapone was recently reviewed for October. Due to fluctuations in selling prices, there is also a mechanism which allows for reimbursement prices to be reviewed in month. These reimbursement prices are referred to as concessionary prices. Entacapone 200 milligram tablets were granted a concessionary price in August.