Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make available on the NHS the new treatment for pancreatic cancer to clear cysts.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is currently appraising a number of drugs that are expected to receive a marketing authorisation for treating pancreatic cancer.

Under the new arrangements for the appraisal and funding of cancer drugs introduced in July 2016, NICE aims to publish draft guidance on new cancer drugs before licensing. If the draft guidance published by NICE is positive, interim funding will be provided from the Cancer Drugs Fund from the point of licensing until final guidance is published and the technology is moved into routine commissioning.