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Clinical Priorities Advisory Group

Asked by Danny BealesLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 13 October 2025UIN 76769

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Clinical Priorities Advisory Group has a budget to approve new treatments.

Answered by Karin Smyth

The Clinical Priorities Advisory Group is an advisory committee that makes recommendations on the relative priority of treatments to be commissioned subject to the available discretionary investment. It is not a decision-making body and does not allocate funds or have a budget for approving new treatments. Further information is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/cpag/

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