Committee on Safety of Medicines

HC Deb 05 June 1996 vol 278 cc446-7W

Mr. Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the scientific information that has been made available to the Committee on Safety of Medicines since November 1995; and on what dates the committee considered that evidence. [31287]

Mr. Malone

Proceedings of meetings of the committee are confidential.

Mr. Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what dates the National Audit Office most recently examined the Medicines Control Agency; and what assessment the National Audit Office made of expenditure relating to the sub-committees of the Committee on Safety of Medicines. [31288]

Mr. Malone

The National Audit Office audit of the Medicines Control Agency's 1995–96 accounts is currently in progress. The audit of the 1994–95 account was completed in May 1995. In the course of that audit the National Audit Office reviewed MCA expenditure generally. No comment was received with regard to expenditure relating to the sub-committees of the Committee on Safety of Medicines.