Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme

(asked on 26th October 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much has been received to the public purse through the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme rebate since its inception; and for what purposes that funding has been used.


This question was answered on 31st October 2016

The Department publishes the payments it receives from companies who are members of the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS) on the GOV.UK website at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pprs-quarterly-net-sales-and-payment-information

Since the 2014 PPRS scheme began the Department has received £1,451 million in PPRS payments.

The Department ensures that all the income it receives from PPRS payments in England is reinvested in the National Health Service for patients’ benefit. The Department includes the expected PPRS payments in setting the NHS England allocations in advance of each year.

NHS England is responsible for allocating the overall budget between clinical commissioning groups, specialised commissioning etc. Following normal Government accounting rules, there is no separately identified or ring-fenced funding stream associated with the PPRS payment.

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