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Mr. Ashdown
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in the Official Report all the different types of licences operated or granted by his Department and the year in which they first came into operation.
Mr. John Patten
The information is as follows:
Year
| |
| Therapeutic Substances Act 1956 (and previous legislations): | |
| Research Licences | 1927 |
| Medicines Act 1968: | |
| Product Licences | 1971 |
| Product Licences of Right | 1971 |
| Manufacturer's Licences | 1971 |
| Wholesale Dealer's Licences | 1971 |
| Licences for the manufacture of medical equipment: | |
| Endoscope dual viewing device | 1975 |
| Blood Flow Detector | 1976 |
| Radiation detector | 1978 |
| Ultra sound equipment | 1982 |
| Licences for computer software products: | |
| Fortran IV programs for digitising and processing single beam echocardiograms | 1977 |
| Echocardiogram system (Brompton) | 1979 |
| Radiotherapy Dose planning (Addenbrooke) | 1979 |
| Phoenix Pathology System) | 1979 |
| Dietary Analysis (Stoke) | 1981 |
| WIMS (Works Information Management System | 1981 |
| Radiology (East Anglia) | 1982 |
| Master Index and Out-patient Appointments (East Anglia) | 1982 |
| Coral Phoenix (Oxford) | 1982 |
| Regional Standard System (West Midlands) | 1983 |
| Primary Care System (Exeter) | 1983 |
| Standard Equipment Scheduling | 1984 |
| DHSS-DATA (Library Data base) | 1984 |
| Bloodbank (Wolfson) | 1985 |