NHS: Finance
Commons · Question 82856 · Tabled 16 Oct 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 17 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Joe Robertson
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to balance value for money for the NHS with maintaining the UK’s competitiveness in the global pharmaceutical market.
Answer
Answered by Zubir Ahmed, 17 Nov 2025
The Government will always prioritise the needs of National Health Service patients and understands that delivering access to medicines is an important part of delivering frontline services. The pharmaceutical sector, and the innovative medicines it produ...