Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to coordinate its review of substances of human origin legislation with proposed reforms to medical device regulation, to avoid regulatory duplication and unnecessary barriers for manufacturers of devices used in the collection, processing, storage and transfusion of blood and blood components.

The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.