Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many drugs currently prescribed to NHS patients in England and Wales are distributed under a European Medicines Agency licence; what those drugs are; and what therapeutic areas they treat.

Information on medicines granted a marketing authorisation through the European Medicines Agency’s centralised procedure is available in the Community register of medicinal products for human use, which can be found at:

http://ec.europa.eu/health/documents/community-register/html/alfregister.htm

Whether these medicines are prescribed to National Health Service patients in England is dependent on a number of factors including manufacturers’ marketing decisions, guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, national and local commissioning policies, established clinical practice and individual clinicians’ prescribing decisions.