Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will support the healthtech sector by prioritising the development of domestic assurance routes that will allow recognition of approvals in the (a) Medical Device Single Audit Programme (MDSAP), (b) ACCESS consortium and (c) other trusted jurisdictions.

On 21 April 2022, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) was made a full member of the International Medical Device Regulators Forum. The MHRA is currently an official observer of the Medical Device Single Audit Programme. In January 2021, the MHRA joined the Access Consortium and has appointed experts to the majority of working groups.