§ Mr. GaleTo ask the Secretary of State for Health when he intends to implement the ruling of the European Court on the reinstatement of slimming drugs proscribed by the Medicines Control Agency on 9 April. [119995]
§ Ms StuartThe United Kingdom Licensing Authority has today rescinded the ban on the marketing of amfepramone, following the European Court's decision to suspend the European ban. Although there are no new safety concerns with this product, in the interests of public health and reassurance to patients, the urgent advice of the Committee on the Safety of Medicines has been 625W sought. The European Court has not given any decision in relation to the European ban on phentermine—another anorectic substance previously on the UK market.