Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether it is the policy of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to allow e-cigarette manufacturers to bring e-cigarette products to the UK market using a pre-existing notification that was used for a non-compliant e-cigarette product that was removed from sale.

It is not the policy of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to allow submitters to modify an existing publication in order to bypass the requirements of notification. Therefore, MHRA policy does not permit e-cigarette manufacturers to bring e-cigarette products to the United Kingdom market using a pre-existing notification that was used for a non-compliant e-cigarette product that was removed from sale. The MHRA will review intelligence linked to non-compliant activities on a case-by-case basis.