To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry when he expects to publish the Government’s response to the Office of Fair Trading report on the Pharmaceutical Price Regulations Scheme. (144048)

[holding answer 19 June 2007]: Ministers are still considering the full implications of this important and complex report. Due to the need to assess all of the information provided by OFT, including detailed annexes published after the main report, the timing of the Government response has been delayed.