Written question asked by Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat) on Tuesday, 20 April 2004, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 10 May 2004. It was answered by Baroness Winterton of Doncaster (Labour) on Monday, 10 May 2004 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Dept of Health

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many investigations have been carried out into the sale of unlicensed medicines via the internet by (a) the Medicines Control Agency for each year between 1997 and 2003 and (b) the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency in the last year. - Inc table.

Answer: Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many investigations have been carried out into the sale of unlicensed medicines via the internet by (a) the Medicines Control Agency for each year between 1997 and 2003 and (b) the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency in the last year. [167808] Ms Rosie Winterton: The number of internet investigations carried out by the Medicines Control Agency (MCA) and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) involving unlicensed medicinal products year-on-year since 1997 is shown in the table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number of cases 1997-20011 3 2001-021 1 2002-031 5 2003-042 7 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Investigated by the MCA. 2 Investigated by the MHRA.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 421 c166W; 167808
Session: 2003-04
Subjects: Criminal investigation Crime Drugs Internet Prescription drugs Sales Regulation Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency Medicines Control Agency
Contains statistics: Yes
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