Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in China on exchange of information on drugs and medicine between the UK and China.

The United Kingdom and China hold an annual event called the People-to-People Dialogue which is co-Chaired by the Secretary of State for Health and a Chinese counterpart. Health is included in the dialogue and, each year, a broad range of topics is discussed.

In terms of medicines specific information the 2015 Joint Statement references UK-China cooperation to tackle anti-microbial resistance. More broadly the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency cooperate with the China Food and Drug Administration on medicines regulation.