Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01608

Wholly Owned National Private Pharmaceuticals

Closed Submitted 31 Mar 2016 Health
Signatures
0
24 online signatures with a country
Comments
1
Considered
2 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to create a medical manufacturing and research organisation in Scotland wholly owned and operated by the Scottish Government to provide manufacturing of drugs for the NHS out of patent, and to develop and research new drugs that are conducive to the needs of the Scottish population.

What the petitioner did first

A copy of the proposal "Reducing National Health Service Prescription Costs Through Wholly Owned National Private Company." has been sent to the First Minister, The Scottish Health Minister & Leaders of the Major Parties at Holyrood.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 15 Sep 2016
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention
  2. 24 Nov 2016
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention

Signatures by country

24 online signatures
  1. Scotland11 45.8%
  2. United Kingdom8 33.3%
  3. England4 16.7%
  4. Australia1 4.2%

Comments

1 comment, oldest first
  1. Robert Marks (Dr) 10 Jun 2016
    Interesting idea, and obviously thought out. I wonder if you could really call it a PRIVATE company with only the Scottish Government(? sic) as shareholder?
    I used to be a research chemist and know the cost of drug development is enormous. Perhaps you could clarify if the Scottish "government" which is not sovereign would be allowed to do this even if it wanted. I think it may lie beyond it's powers.