HC Deb 16 March 1994 vol 239 c726W
Mr. David Nicholson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if the licensing authority responsible for granting product licences for parallel imports of medicines is currently subject to a legal challenge in the courts.

Mr. Sackville

On 26 January a pharmaceutical company in the United Kingdom was granted leave for a judical review of a decision by the Medicines Control Agency, on behalf of the licensing authority, to grant a parallel import product licence to a company to market a product imported from Belgium. The hearing is expected in April.