Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with which organisations and individuals (a) Ministers and (b) officials in his Department have discussed the availability of repurposed off-patent drugs on the NHS since 12 February 2014.

Following the 11 February 2015 Roundtable Event on ‘Translating Evidence in to Clinical Practice’, officials are continuing to work with key stakeholders including charities, health professional networks, the General Medical Council, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. Officials have since been engaging with stakeholders to progress outputs associated with this event.