Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will expand the scope of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review to include matters relating to hernia mesh operations.

The Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review was set up to examine whether the processes pursued when safety concerns were raised by patients, their families, and others were sufficient in relation to primodos, sodium valproate and vaginal mesh.

The Review is independent of Government and its Terms of Reference and ongoing scope are a matter for Baroness Cumberlege as Chair of the Review. The Department expects that the conclusions of the Review will contain lessons for organisations across the health system.