Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make an assessment of whether the proper protocols were followed in the CLOTHES trial at Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit.
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and an Independent Trial Steering Committee, appointed by the NIHR, assessed the study protocols during the course of the research. No concerns were raised. The study was also subject to scrutiny by the sponsor and ethical committees, as is the usual course of activity in such a trial.