Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what information the Government holds on the number of pharmaceutical companies that have been prosecuted for withholding information on their products in the last twenty years.
The Ministry of Justice cannot provide information on the number of pharmaceutical companies that have been prosecuted for withholding information on their products, as the type of company prosecuted is not held centrally in the Courts Proceeding Database.
The Ministry of Justice publishes information on prosecutions, convictions and sentence outcomes in the Outcomes by Offence data tool: December 2022 including offences as set out in the Offence Group Classification. By navigating to the ‘Person/other’ filter within the pivot tools, it can be filtered for ’02: Companies, public bodies, etc.’, however it is not able to establish the type of company the data represents.