§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 14 March,Official Report, column 751, if he will give a breakdown of the sum of £821, 986 devoted to running the spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting scheme in 1994–95. [26256]
§ Mr. Malone[holding answer 24 April 1996]: This figure relates to the budget allocated to the ADROIT—adverse drug reactions on-line information 83W tracking—group of the Medicines Control Agency, which is responsible for the day-to-day running of the United Kingdom's spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting scheme. Of this amount, £612,482 relates to the basic salary of staff working within the unit—excluding national insurance and pension contributions—and £209,504 relates to the costs of running and maintaining the ADROIT database for the financial year 1994–95. This database records all reports of adverse drugs reactions received from doctors and pharmaceutical companies.