Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether his Department has commissioned or published reports on the use of medicinal cannabis.

The Department of Health part funded the Cannabinoid Use in Progressive Inflammatory brain Disease study through the National Institute for Health Research’s (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment programme. The report of this study was published in February 2015 and is available on the NIHR Journals Library website at:

http://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/hta/volume-19/issue-12#abstract