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Anne McGuire (Stirling, Labour)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many import licences were granted to parallel import companies for the importation of oxycodeine between 1 December 2011 and 30 April 2012; on what criteria such licences were issued; how many such licences were granted to (a) those who had previously held licences and (b) new applicants; and how many such licences were cancelled or suspended during the same period.

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Jeremy Browne (Taunton Deane, Liberal Democrat)

There is not a known drug called oxycodeine; however oxycodone is an opoid analgesic. A total of 122 import authorisations were approved for shipments of oxycodone between 1 December 2011 and 30 April 2012. All licences were issued in accordance with published interim policy, including a proportion for ‘parallel import' purposes. Only companies previously granted licences for this purpose were issued further import authorisations during this period, and 37 licence applications were cancelled.

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