§ Mr. OatenTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the consultants and their projects being used by the Medicines and Health Care Products Agency. [R] [128594]
§ Miss Melanie Johnson[holding answer 8 September 2003]: Consultants currently being used by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and the projects they are being used on are as follows:
Accenture—Design and build of IT applications.Accenture—General Practice Research Database (GPRD) Accelerator Project.Charles Mackenzie—Enhancements to website applications.Hay Group—Design of Personal Development and Performance Management System.Oxford Group—Delivery of Management and Leadership Training programme.Red Ant Design—General Practice Research Database (GPRD) marketing and customer interface.TK Consultancy—Design and build of medicines enforcement case investigation system.Turner and Townsend—Post-merger co-location project.Unipart Advanced Learning systems—enhancements to device adverse incidents tracking system.Winton Nightingale—Management of staff restaurant contract.
§ Mr. OatenTo ask the Secretary of State for Health when he plans to appoint a Chief Executive to the Medicines and Health Care Products Regulatory Agency. [R] [128595]
§ Miss Melanie Johnson[holding answer 8 September 2003]: Professor Kent Woods, who has been appointed Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), will take up the appointment on 1 January 2004.