Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the timetable is for the skin cancer jab to become available through the NHS.

There are no plans to introduce a skin cancer jab on the National Health Service. It is for local NHS commissioners to make decisions on whether to fund new treatments, taking into account National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance, available evidence and individual patient’s clinical circumstances. The future availability of any new or novel treatments would be subject to large scale clinical trials demonstrating the safety and efficacy of the treatment approach and subsequent assessments of its cost effectiveness for routine use.