Drugs: Licensing
(asked on 21st November 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many licence applications for (a) plant-based and (b) alcohol-free medicines the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency received in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 28th November 2023
The following table shows the number of applications for plant-based and alcohol-free medicines that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has received in the last five years:
Year | Plant-based medicines | Alcohol-free medicines |
2019 | 21 | 850 |
2020 | 3 | 1209 |
2021 | 1 | 1242 |
2022 | 1 | 1065 |
2023 | 4 | 1084 |
Source: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
Notes:
- Plant-based medicines include herbals and homeopathics.
- The number of alcohol-free medicine applications is the number of licence applications minus those that list alcohol (ethanol) as an ingredient.