HC Deb 13 December 1989 vol 163 c679W
Mr. Rowlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff are currently employed(a) in the Medicines Control Agency and (b) the drug tariff committee; and how many of these are qualified pharmacists.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

As at 1 November 1989 the Medicines Control Agency employed 297–5 staff (full-time equivalents); of these 52 are pharmacists*.

There is no drug tariff committee. About 35 staff in the Department have duties concerned with the preparation of the drug tariff. Of these, five are pharmacists*.

Note: * Members or Fellows of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

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