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, when he became aware that he had no correspondence between Public Health England and his Department on hallucinations, psychosis or suicidal thoughts in personnel prescribed Mefloquine or Lariam; and if he will make a statement.

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.