A question on #NHS #Drugs tabled by Sir Ashley Fox on 03-01-2025 has been answered by Karin Smyth.

Heading: NHS: Drugs
Question ID: 1752182
UIN: 21743
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-01-03
Asking Member ID: 5101
Asking Member display name: Sir Ashley Fox
Asking Member handle: Ashley7Fox
Asking Member Twitter reference: @Ashley7Fox
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average length of time has been for a repurposed medicine to be granted an MHRA licence from the point of application in the last two years.
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Date answered: 2025-01-09
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Is holding answer: false
Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 4444
Answering Member display name: Karin Smyth
Answering Member handle: karinsmyth
Answering Member Twitter reference: @karinsmyth
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Answer text: In the last two years, there has been one medicine to date, namely Anastrozole, coming through the Repurposed Medicines Programme, with more information available at the following link:https://www.england.nhs.uk/medicines-2/medicines-repurposing-programme...
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Answering body ID: 17
Answering body name: Department of Health and Social Care
Tweeted: true