# Whitehall officials and ministers will invite bosses from companies including AstraZeneca and GSK to join the new working group in the coming weeks.

*biotech · news · 2025-12-02 · Sky News*

## Key points

- A new government-industry panel will devise a future pricing regime for key medicines in the UK.
- Executives from AstraZeneca and GSK will be invited to join this panel in the coming weeks.
- The UK-US drug-pricing deal makes the NHS pay 25% more for branded medicines and cuts the clawback tax.
- The panel will consider replacing VPAG with models linking drug pricing to development activity in the UK.

**Companies:** AstraZeneca, GSK
**Countries:** UK, US

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