§ Mr. Nicholas BennettTo ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to receive the annual report of the Medicines Commission for 1988.
§ Mr. MellorI 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 1988 reports of the Medicines Commission, the Committee on Safety of Medicines, the Veterinary Products Committee, the British Pharmacopoeia Commission, the Commitee on the Review of Medicines and the Committee on Dental and Surgical Materials. The bound volumes include a record of the personal and non-personal interests in the pharmaceutical industry of members of these advisory bodies, with the exception of the Veterinary Products Committee for whom only personal interests are recorded.
I am glad to pay tribute to the valuable work done in the public interest by the distinguished members of the Medicines Act advisory bodies.