§ Mr. Nigel EvansTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what action the Government are taking to eradicate CFCs from metered dosage inhalers. [35506]
§ Mr. MaloneThe Medicines Control Agency is complying with European regulations and the Montreal protocol concerning the removal of chlorofluorocarbon propellants from the environment which undertake to remove CFCs from all medicinal products by the end of 1999.
§ Mr. Nigel EvansTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance his Department issues to doctors in respect of prescribing non-CFC inhalant medication. [35505]
§ Mr. MaloneNo guidance has been issued to doctors regarding non-CFC inhalant medication, although factual material was included in a bulletin on such devices from the medicines resource centre in September 1995. Copies of this article are available in the Library. However, the Government are committed to the removal of CFCs from all medicinal products by the end of 1999.