Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions his Department has held with NICE on its plans for further engagement with stakeholders after the NICE Methods Review consultation closes on 18 December 2020.

Departmental Ministers and officials regularly discuss a range of matters with colleagues in the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).

NICE’s first public consultation on the case for change to its methods ran from 6 November to 18 December 2020. There will be a second public consultation in spring 2021 on the case for change to its processes and a final public consultation on the draft programme manual in summer 2021.