PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
NHS: Drugs (23 November 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, on what date (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department met representatives from the (i) NHS and (ii) pharmaceutical industry to discuss drug price rises in each of the last two years.

Asked by:
Dr Andrew Murrison (Conservative)

Ministers and officials regularly meet with stakeholders from the National Health Service and the pharmaceutical industry where a range of issues are discussed, including the pricing of medicines.

No central record exists of these meetings and it is not possible to provide a comprehensive response. However, nine meetings were held between Departmental officials and pharmaceutical companies under the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme and statutory medicines pricing scheme to specifically discuss price increases for branded medicines. The dates of these meetings were:

12 February 2015

16 March 2015

21 May 2015

5 January 2016

11 February 2016

21 March 2016

21 April 2016

26 May 2016

29 June 2016

In addition, there have also been meetings with the British Generic Manufacturers Association where generic medicines price increases were discussed.

Answered by:
Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (Conservative)
1 December 2016