Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answers by Lord Markham on 2 February (HL4910), 8 February (HL4944) and 7 March (HL5695 and HL5938), why the Therapeutics Clinical Review Panel (TCRP) did not review the report Qcovid 4 - Predicting risk of death or hospitalisation from COVID-19, published in August 2022, when it met in January; why this report was not provided by the TCRP to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence; and when the TCRP will meet to review this report.

The Therapeutics Clinical Review Panel met on 31 January 2023 to review the most recent evidence on COVID-19 risk, including QCovid 4. The evidence considered by the Panel was shared with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The report entitled QCovid 4 - Predicting risk of death or hospitalisation from COVID-19 is also in the public domain in an online-only format and available to NICE.