Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to review or reform the basis on which National Institute for Health and Care Excellence assesses whether to authorise new drugs for NHS use.

The Department regularly has discussions with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) about a range of issues. NICE is responsible for the methods and processes that it uses in the development of its guidance and recommendations and has processes in place to keep its methods and processes under review.