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Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency: Clinical Trials

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 156073, tabled on 1 March 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the standard time is for a coordinated response by MHRA for clinical trails; and what the performance has been against that standard in the last 12 months.

Answered on

10 March 2023

The standard time for the initial coordinated response from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is 30 days from the date of receipt of a valid request for authorisation of a clinical trial. The average coordinated performance against the standard for the last 12 months between February 2022 to February 2023 inclusive was 43.96 days.