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1001918

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date	05/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Rare Diseases: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether officials in his Department have had discussions with the Scottish Government on the (a) Patient and Clinician Engagement system, (b) its effect on approval rates for new rare disease medicines in Scotland and (c) potential lessons from that system for NHS England.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	188233
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/11/2018 answer text <p>Officials have had no such discussions. Health is a devolved matter and the availability of medicines for the treatment of rare diseases in Scotland is an issue for the Scottish Government.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 14/11/2018 11:21:33 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

1001919

registered interest
date	05/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Rare Diseases: Drugs
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 4.12 the UK Rare Diseases Strategy, what assessment his Department has made of whether the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s Single Technology Appraisal Programme meets the ambition of suitability for assessing rare disease treatments.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	188234
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>Where a company is willing to set a fair price for a drug, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) technology appraisal process has been proven to be suitable for the assessment of drugs for rare diseases. NICE has been able to recommend a number of drugs for patients with rare diseases through its technology appraisal programme; recent examples include dinutuximab beta for neuroblastoma and daratumumab for relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma.</p><p> </p><p>With the aim of improving the lives of all those affected by a rare disease, the United Kingdom Government published the UK Strategy for Rare Diseases in 2013, a high-level framework containing 51 commitments which sets out a seven-year strategic vision (2013-2020). The Government is committed to implementing the Strategy’s commitments and has, in January 2018, published Implementation Plans setting out its actions for England.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 12/11/2018 17:23:30 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith

999587

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Health Services: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of NHS England’s outturn expenditure against its £25 million budget for discretionary investment in specialised services in (a) 2016-17 and (b) 2017-18.
tabling member constituency	Bury North
tabling member printed	James Frith
uin	187127
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/11/2018 answer text <p>NHS England’s outturn expenditure against its £25 million budget for discretionary investment in specialised services is not separately identified within the overall specialised commissioning spend. Therefore, no estimate can be made on actual spend on the discretionary investments approved for specialised services for 2016-17 and 2017-18.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 09/11/2018 10:02:44 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4637 label Biography information for James Frith