Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment (a) his Department and (b) the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) have made of the effectiveness of NICE's approach to appraising highly specialised drugs.
I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave my Rt. hon. Friend the Member for Eddisbury (Mr Stephen O’Brien) on 26 June 2014, Official Report, column 281W.