§ Ms LynneTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many licences the Medicines Control Agency has(a) issued and (b) refused each year since April 1989; and how many licences have been issued each year since 1989' in response to applications from other EC countries.
§ Dr. MawhinneyThe figures shown in the table relate to product licences only for the three years up until March 1992. Figures from April 1992 to March 1993 are not yet available. Manufacturers' licences, wholesale dealer and parallel import product licences have been excluded. The numbers of refusals relate to formal refusals; in many cases, applicants chose to withdraw their applications rather than pursue them to a formal refusal. No separate records are maintained which would enable the Medicines Control Agency readily to identify product licence applications arising from other EC countries.272W
Question recently put down by you. This related to rateable value, rates due and the average sum due per elector in each parliamentary constituency, district council area, each district electoral area and each ward in Northern Ireland.Unfortunately all of the information you seek is not available. However I am able to provide statistics on a district council basis, and these are set out on the attached schedule.Rateable values and the number of electors, but not rates data can be provided on a ward basis. However rating due is at present being revised to reflect the outcome of the recent Local Government Boundaries Commission Review and this information will become available during July.I will write to you again at that time.
Product licences issued Applications refused April 1989 to March 1990 663 3 April 1990 to March 1991 728 0 April 1991 to March 1992 883 5