Question follow-through · 12654
Medical Equipment: Innovation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the £10 million allocated to the MHRA in March 2023, what progress has been made on accelerating routes for bringing innovative medical products developed onto the market.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 4 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 12 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the £10 million allocated to the MHRA in March 2023, what progress has been made on accelerating routes for bringing innovative medical products developed onto the market.
6 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) greatly welcomed the £10 million of funding announced by HM Treasury in March 2023, which has enabled the MHRA to make progress on the Innovative Licensing and Access Pathway (ILAP).The ILAP h...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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