Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Bethell on 17 March (HL14040), what plans they have to encourage further marketing authorisations for Liothyronine (T3).

We have made no further assessment of the price of Liothyronine relative to increased competition from marketing authorisations or the cost of medicines in other parts of Europe. Further marketing authorisation applications remain at the discretion of pharmaceutical companies.