Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the merits in the conclusions of the 2018 report by Professor Carl Heneghan on oral hormones pregnancy tests and the risks of congenital malformations; and if he will make a statement.

In line with the Government’s commitment to review any new evidence in relation to hormone pregnancy tests, the Commission on Human Medicines is convening a new expert group to conduct an independent scientific review of the publication by Professor Carl Heneghan. In addition, the European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use is conducting a review of the paper at European Union level, at the request of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. Once this paper has been fully considered the findings will be made public.