Health written question – answered at on 4 February 2013.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment his Department has made of the relative levels of representation of ethnic minorities in clinical trials.
The Department has made no specific assessment of the relative levels of representation of minority ethnic groups in clinical trials.
The National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme has funded research related to this topic, including a project on involving South Asian patients in clinical trials. Details of this project are available on the HTA website at:
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