Michael Connarty: DHSC: Written Answers (1)

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Written Question

Drugs: Licensing

Tuesday 25th November 2014

Asked by: Michael Connarty (Labour - Linlithgow and East Falkirk)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many full-time equivalent officials in his Department work on the availability of off-patent drugs to be used in new indications.

Answered by George Freeman

These issues are relevant to the responsibilities of a number of officials in the Department and in the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. The amount of official time spent on such issues is not fixed and will vary.