Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 1 June 2015 to Question 126 and the Answer of 24 June 2015 to Question 2877, if he will place in the Library the (a) correspondence and (b) minutes of meetings between 2010 and 2015 between his Department and Public Health England Advisory Committee on malaria prevention in relation to the use of Lariam or Mefloquine and reports of (i) hallucinations, (ii) psychosis and (iii) suicidal thoughts in personnel prescribed those medications.

I have today placed in the Library a copy of the relevant sections of minutes of meetings held between 2010 and 2015 by the Public Health England Advisory Committee on Malaria Prevention, at which a Ministry of Defence representative was present, in relation to the use of mefloquine (commercial name Lariam).

Following an extensive search by officials, that concluded on 22 June 2015, it is apparent that the Department does not hold any correspondence between Public Health England and the Ministry of Defence on hallucinations, psychosis or suicidal thoughts in personnel prescribed mefloquine.