Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Department of Health and Social Care’s ongoing Voluntary Pricing and Access Scheme (VPAS) pre-negotiation workshops, how the discussions and insights gathered from (1) industry, and (2) civil society, will inform negotiations for VPAS 2024.

The Department invited a range of stakeholders including industry bodies, patient organisations and civil society organisations to workshops which took place from January 2023 until March 2023. These workshops were a listening exercise that aimed to illicit a diverse range of perspectives. The insights taken from these workshops will be used to inform the preparations for negotiation of a successor to the 2019 voluntary scheme for branded medicines and pricing access.