Clinical Trials

(asked on 10th June 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many drug trials have taken place in the UK in each of the last three years.


Answered by
Norman Lamb Portrait
Norman Lamb
This question was answered on 17th June 2014

The numbers of applications received by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency's Clinical Trials Unit for clinical trials of medicinal products over the past three financial years is shown in the following table:

Financial Year

Total trials

2011-12

920

2012-13

935

2013-14

989

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