Health Service Medical Supplies (Costs) Bill — Report — 7 Feb 2017 at 18:30

Moved by Lord Lansley

4: Clause 3, page 2, line 32, at end insert-“( ) After subsection (1) insert-“(1A) When making a scheme under this section for controlling the cost of health service medicines, or determining any amount to be paid to him or her, the Secretary of State must take account of any voluntary scheme in force under section 261 (powers relating to voluntary schemes), and should seek, so far as is practicable and relevant, to secure comparable effects in relation to products in the statutory scheme as would apply if those products were participating in the voluntary scheme.””

Moved by Lord Lansley

5: After Clause 3, insert the following new Clause-“Report to ParliamentAfter section 264 of the National Health Service Act 2006 (statutory schemes: supplementary) insert-“264ZZA Report to Parliament(1) Where the Secretary of State enters into a voluntary scheme under section 261, 263 or 264A, or makes a statutory scheme under section 263 or 264, he or she must lay a report before each House of Parliament, setting out how the scheme concerned will enable the Secretary of State to fulfil his or her statutory duties under section 266(4).(2) The report must also cover the impact of the scheme on the statutory duties of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence under section 233 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (general duties).””

Moved by Lord O'Shaughnessy

6: Clause 5, page 4, line 6, at end insert-“( ) In section 272(6)(orders, regulations, rules and directions subject to affirmative procedure), after paragraph (a) insert-“(aa) the first order under section 260,”.”

Moved by Lord Lansley

7: After Clause 5, insert the following new Clause-“Price control: exemptionsAfter section 264 of the National Health Service Act 2006 (statutory schemes: supplementary) insert-“264ZA Price control: exemptionsIn circumstances where the Secretary of State considers that the price or security of supply of any health service medicine or medical supply, or category of health service medicines or supplies, may be determined most appropriately through an open and competitive tender process, the Secretary of State may exempt that product, or category products, from the application of the scheme.””

Moved by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

8: Clause 6, page 5, line 35, leave out “revenue or” and insert “product revenue and aggregate UK”

Moved by Lord O'Shaughnessy

9: Clause 6, page 5, line 37, at end insert “(including, in relation to profits, the costs incurred by the producer in connection with the manufacturing, distribution or supply of the products)”

Moved by Lord O'Shaughnessy

11: Clause 6, page 5, leave out lines 46 to 48 and insert-“(5) Regulations under this section must require the Secretary of State to give a UK producer an information notice if information is required in respect of the costs incurred by the producer in connection with the manufacturing, distribution or supply of UK health service products (other than costs which relate to any transaction with a UK producer for those products).(5A) An information notice is a notice stating-(a) the period in relation to or for which, or intervals at which, information is required to be provided,(b) the form and manner in which information is required to be provided,(c) the time at which or period within which information is required to be provided, and(d) that a right of appeal is conferred by virtue of section 265(5A).(5B) Regulations under this section may require information which does not fall within subsection (5) to be provided-(a) in relation to or for a prescribed period or at prescribed intervals,(b) in a prescribed form and manner, and(c) at a prescribed time or within a prescribed period.”

Moved by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

12: Clause 6, in subsection (5), before “manufacturing” insert “access to, ”

Ayes 114, Noes 190.

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