PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Cancer Drugs Fund (4 February 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 2 February 2015 to Question 222351, how much of the expected £340 million Cancer Drugs Fund budget for 2015-16 has been allocated to pay for drug indications (a) already funded by the Cancer Drugs Fund and (b) that will be funded by the Cancer Drugs Fund for the first time from April 2015.

Asked by:
Sir Nicholas Dakin (Labour)

NHS England has advised that its estimated budget of £340 million for the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) in 2015-16 is based on predictions of spend associated with the current national CDF list and incorporates estimates of the implications from the recent changes to the list, including the addition of some new drugs.

Answered by:
George Freeman (Conservative)
9 February 2015