Cancer: Drugs

(asked on 1st September 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the forecast level of expenditure on the Cancer Drugs Fund will be in the 2014-15 financial year.


Answered by
George Freeman Portrait
George Freeman
This question was answered on 8th September 2014

NHS England has oversight of the Cancer Drugs Fund.

We are advised that NHS England has not published a forecast for expenditure through the Cancer Drugs Fund in 2014-15.

On 28 August, we announced that the size of the Fund would be increased to £280 million in both 2014-15 and 2015-16.

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