Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what requirements there are on members of the Committee on Safety of Medicines to declare relevant interests.

The Commission of Human Medicines superseded the Committee on Safety of Medicines from 30 October 2005.

The Chair and all members are required to make a full declaration of interests on appointment and annually in line with the Code of Practice. Both the code and declarations are published each year in the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 Advisory Bodies Annual Report.

Before and at each meeting members are reminded to declare any interest they might have in the agenda items. Declarations and the type of interest are recorded in the minutes.