Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if they will make an assessment of the potential merits for supply stabilisation of recategorising entacapone only products to category C in the NHS drugs tariff; and if he will make a statement.

Entacapone 200 milligram (mg) tablets are currently listed in Category M of Part VIII of the Drug Tariff. Reimbursement prices of generic medicines in Category M are calculated on the basis of sales and volume data provided from manufacturers and they also include an element of medicine margin. For a product to be considered for addition to a category or to move from one category to another – the guideline criteria relevant to the category in which the product may be placed needs to be met. This is constantly kept under review for all products listed in the Drug Tariff including entacapone 200mg tablets.