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Health: Medicines

My honourable friend the Minister of State for Public Health (Caroline Flint) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. The Government are sponsoring a leaflet on medicines development. The leaflet has been placed in the Library and copies are available to honourable Members from the Vote Office. The leaflet has been produced by the Coalition for Medical Progress (CMP) to raise general public awareness about how medicines are developed, and covers the use of animals in medicines research and testing, through to clinical trials and licensing. The CMP will make the leaflet available for six months in around 60 per cent of GP practices in England.