Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what percentage of applications to undertake clinical trials that require MHRA approval are completed within 30 days; and how many such applications were received in the last 12 months.
A total of 587 valid clinical trial authorisation applications were received and assessed during the period of July 2022 to June 2023. Out of the 587, 100 applications were assessed within 30 days (17.04%).