Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Clinical Priorities Advisory Group has a budget to approve new treatments.

The Clinical Priorities Advisory Group is an advisory committee that makes recommendations on the relative priority of treatments to be commissioned subject to the available discretionary investment. It is not a decision-making body and does not allocate funds or have a budget for approving new treatments. Further information is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/cpag/