Business of the House Debate

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Department: Leader of the House
Thursday 21st April 2016

(8 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Grayling Portrait Chris Grayling
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As the hon. Gentleman knows, through the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, we provide access to new drugs. Through the cancer drugs fund, we provide specific funding centrally for new drugs, but it is right and proper that the health service considers the merits of each new drug as it comes on to the market and forms a view as to whether it can make the difference that its originators claim.

Henry Smith Portrait Henry Smith (Crawley) (Con)
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Further to the question by my hon. Friend the Member for Cleethorpes (Martin Vickers), the United States would rightly never cede its sovereignty to a supranational body, so may we have a debate on the protocol that international leaders should not involve themselves in commenting on domestic elections?

Lord Grayling Portrait Chris Grayling
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I suspect that President Obama will have picked up the different sides of the current debate before he arrives. We will all wait with interest to see what he has to say.