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.
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 |