Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the outcome was of the stakeholder roundtable discussion on off-patent drugs convened by his Department on 11 February 2015.

The Department convened a roundtable event on 11 February 2015 to discuss what action, could most expeditiously be taken to ensure that robust evidence about new uses for existing drugs is produced, disseminated and then used to inform clinical decision making about these medicines.

A number of areas were identified where further work could help improve matters, including:

- supporting clinicians to identify the latest robust evidence on patient care and take it up in their own practice; and

- supporting and mapping clear pathways for innovators and those who want to "re-purpose" drugs.

Officials have since been engaging with stakeholders to progress outputs associated with this event.