§ Ms. MowlamTo ask the Secretary of State for Health when she now expects the advisory committee on NHS drugs to make its recommendations in relation to the possible extension of the selected drugs list.
§ Dr. MawhinneyI understand that at its meeting earlier this month the advisory committee on national health service drugs decided to set up sub-groups to undertake preliminary consideration of the range of drugs within each of the therapeutic categories to which the provisions of the selected list scheme are being extended. I also understand that the committee decided the order in which it would then itself consider drugs in the new categories, but that it has not set dates for the reviews of particular categories.