Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what drugs have been funded through the Cancer Drugs Fund this year; and how much funding remains in that Fund.

Since April 2017, there are currently 27 drugs in 42 indications that are funded by the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF). A full list of current and previous CDF drugs can be viewed at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/cancer/cdf/cancer-drugs-fund-list/

The latest published spend for the first six months of 2017/18 implies a circa £76 million of unused funding for that period against the CDF. The quarterly activity report is a snapshot of CDF spend at a point in time and the spend figure will increase as more drugs are added to the fund. The link to the report can be found here:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cdf-activity-update-Q2-2017-18.pdf