Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to publish a decision in response to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency's consultation on the reclassification of the Lovima and Hana progestogen-only contraceptive pills, to enable those pills to be sold over-the-counter in pharmacies.

The consultation exercise on the proposal to reclassify two medicines containing desogestrel from prescription only medicines to pharmacy medicines has closed. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is reviewing the large number of responses received and the outcome of consultation will be communicated as soon as possible.