HC Deb 17 January 1994 vol 235 c389W
Mr. Hargreaves

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans she has to restructure the Medicines Control Agency; and if she will make a statement.

Mr. Sackville

The Medicines Control Agency became an executive agency in July 1991 and a Government trading fund in April 1993. In accordance with the usual arrangements, and as announced in the next steps review 1993, we shall be conducting a review of the performance and operation of the Medicines Control Agency for completion within three and a half years of the agency's launch—that is, by early 1995.

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