Prescription Drugs

(asked on 10th January 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many licences for the manufacture or supply of (a) benzodiazepines (b) z drugs and (c) antidepressants have been issued by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in the last year.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 18th January 2018

The numbers of licences (marketing authorisations) for the manufacture or supply of benzodiazepines z drugs and antidepressants issued by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency in the last year (2017) are:

Benzodiazepines: six licences

Z-drugs: six licences

Antidepressants: 33 licences

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