PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
NHS: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (20 October 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect of including the National Health Service in the negative list of exclusion for negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment partnership.

Asked by:
Ian Murray (Labour)

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will not change the fact that it is up to UK Government alone to decide how UK public services, including the NHS, are run. The UK has insisted on maintaining the same safeguards for the NHS in TTIP as it has in all recent trade agreements.

This position was confirmed by the European Commission

Answered by:
Matt Hancock (Conservative)
23 October 2014