Clause 28
Finance (No. 2) Bill
12:15 pm
Jeremy Wright (Rugby and Kenilworth, Conservative)
I welcome you to the Chair, Mr. Benton.
Will the Financial Secretary engage in some joined-up government? I welcome what he said about the extension of relief for clinical trials, which is clearly a necessary and important move, but he will know that there are other reasons why it is difficult for companies, particularly smaller ones, to conduct such trials. Many of those are related to the European clinical trials directive. To see that the measure is enacted as effectively as he and I want it to be, it is necessary for him to speak to his colleagues in the Department of Health and to remove any administrative obstacles to the conduct of clinical trials so that advantage can be taken of the tax relief.