HC Deb 26 March 1991 vol 188 c368W
Mr. Gale

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will give the remaining patent life for each new chemical entity and new active substance licensed and marketed in each of the years 1987, 1988 and 1989–90, respectively;

(2) how many products licensed in each of the years 1987, 1988 and 1989–90 had no effective patent life remaining at the point of marketing.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

It is not our practice to give information on the commercial position of the pharmaceutical companies covered by the pharmaceutical price regulation scheme.