Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to coordinate its review of substances of human origin legislation with proposed reforms to medical device regulation, to avoid regulatory duplication and unnecessary barriers for manufacturers of devices used in the collection, processing, storage and transfusion of blood and blood components.

The Department is currently analysing the submissions that it received as part of the call for evidence conducted earlier this year and will set out next steps in due course, including on the areas raised by the Hon. Member.