Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the link between the use of innovative medicines by the NHS and (1) the placement of clinical trials in the UK, (2) patient outcomes, and (3) employment levels in the life sciences industry in the UK.

Whilst we have made no specific assessment, the Government’s Life Sciences Vision sets out our ambition to stimulate the United Kingdom’s life sciences sector. The vision commits the Government to supporting the National Health Service to test, purchase and spread innovative technologies more effectively, so that cutting-edge science and innovations can be embedded widely across the NHS as early as possible, and rapidly adopted in the rest of the world. We are working with industry and system partners to make the NHS the country’s highest driver of innovation.