HC Deb 23 July 1990 vol 177 cc78-9W
Mr. Burns

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to receive the annual report of the Medicines Commission for 1989.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

I have received the report and copies have today been laid before both Houses of Parliament in accordance with the requirements of section 5(2) of the Medicines Act 1968.

Bound volumes will shortly be placed in the libraries containing the 1989 reports of the Medicines Commission, the Committee on Safety of Medicines, the Veterinary Products Committee, the British Pharmacopoeia Commission, the Committee on the Review of Medicines and the Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials.

I am glad to pay tribute to the highly valuable work done by the distinguished members of the Medicines Act advisory bodies and thank them warmly for the time and effort which they contribute to the public interest in this most important field.