Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of ensuring it is made clear whenever health research is commercially funded.

The merits of clarifying research funding sources are enshrined in Health Research Authority policy on health and care research which is available at the following link:

https://www.hra.nhs.uk/documents/1068/uk-policy-framework-health-social-care-research.pdf

Researchers are required to register studies on a public research register before they begin. All trials of medicines are automatically published by the European Union on the EU clinical trial register which is available at the following link:

https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu/