Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to investigate why no independent audit body observed the CLOTHES trial at Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit in any assessment of that trial.
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) appointed an Independent Trial Steering Committee to oversee this independent trial. The study team also reported regularly to the NIHR, as a condition of their funding contract and in accordance with their membership of the NIHR portfolio.