§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will consider establishing a scheme to provide compensation, ultimately financed by the drug company involved, to the dependants of those who have died from and those who have suffered appreciable deterioration of health as the result of being prescribed the drug Opren before its dangers were apparent.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergNo. I refer the hon. Member to my reply to the right hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Ashley) and to the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East (Mrs. Short) on 30 November.—[Vol. 33, c.137.]
§ Mr. Mike Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Service what documents available to the Committee on Safety of Medicines relating to adverse reactions to the drug Opren prepared by or for Eli-Lilly and Co. or any of its subsidiaries were received by the committee after the date the drug was granted a product licence in the United Kingdom but which were available to the company prior to that date.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergI am aware of no such documents.