Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many contracts the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency bid for to carry out authorisation processes for the European Medicines Agency in each of the past five years; and how many of those bids were successful.
The number of contracts secured by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in each of past five years is shown in the following table:
Financial year | Number of contracts |
2013/14 | 35 |
2014/15 | 27 |
2015/16 | 35 |
2016/17 | 41 |
2017/18 | 11 |
The information included in the table is based on the EMA Committee on Human Medicinal Products (CHMP) rapporteurships allocated to the MHRA for assessment of new marketing authorisation applications.
The proportion of the income of the MHRA that came from the EMA in each of the past five years is shown in the following table:
Financial year | Proportion of income |
2013/14 | 6% |
2014/15 | 6% |
2015/16 | 6% |
2016/17 | 9% |
2017/18 | 8% |
The source of the information is the MHRA’s Annual Report and Accounts for each of the past five years.
The number of bids submitted by the MHRA to carry out authorisations processes for the EMA based on the number of bids for CHMP rapporteurship for new marketing authorisation applications and the number of rapporteurships awarded in the last three financial years is shown in the following table:
Financial year | Number of bids submitted | Number of rapporteurships awarded |
2015/16 | 86 | 35 |
2016/17 | 87 | 41 |
2017/18 | 66 | 11 |
Metrics for bids submitted prior to this time have not been recorded.