Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will reconsider creating a new independent Redress Agency for people harmed by medicines and medical devices as recommended by the Cumberlege Report.

The Government did not accept the recommendation to establish a redress agency as set out in the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review. It is already possible for the Government and others to provide redress for specific issues where that is considered necessary. Our priority is to improve the future safety of medicines and medical devices, setting high standards for industry to market and manufacture products, with the aim of reducing harm in the future.