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Department of Health

Is the hon. Gentleman aware that Eliot Spitzer in New York took GlaxoSmithKlein to court and the company was fined? That revealed a truly shocking picture of falsified research: negative results were ignored; results showing that new drugs were not as effective as placebos had been buried and not published; and the results of trials during which people had died had been suppressed. That is a dreadful record and although I tried to congratulate the drug companies on having changed their act, the past is one of deception, errors and manipulation on a scale that most of us could not imagine.