Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, further to his Answer of 19 June 2014, Official Report, column 278W, on haemolytic uraemic syndrome, when the next meeting of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's evaluation committee will take place; and how soon after that meeting he expects to place a copy of NHS England's response in the Library.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has advised that the next meeting of its highly specialised technology evaluation committee will take place on 24 July 2014. If the committee agrees finaldraft recommendations on eculizumab for the treatment of atypical haemolytic uraemic syndrome, NICE will aim to make them available in September in line with its interim process guide. NHS England's response will form part of the documentation published and a copy will be placed in the Library at this time.