Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written  Answer by Baroness Merron on 26 January (HL12852), whether they intend to apply the increased cost-effectiveness threshold to technology evaluated through the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s HealthTech guidance evaluation programme, or only to technology evaluated through the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence technology appraisals programme.

No decision has yet been taken on whether the increased cost-effectiveness threshold will apply to medical technologies that are evaluated by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence through its HealthTech programme.