Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 36736

NHS: Drugs

Tabled: 10 March 2025
Answered: 17 March 2025

Question

Preet Kaur Gill

Labour (Co-op)Birmingham Edgbaston

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what performance improvement targets he has sought from the MHRA on bringing down the licensing backlog of generic and biosimilar medicine applications.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) focus has been to ensure all applications received through all routes are processed on time. The MHRA has now embedded improvements in processing licencing applications into standard working...

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