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Freedom of Information request on the MHRA receiving funding from charities (FOI 22/559)

Published 14 June 2022

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FOI 22/559

11th April 2022

Dear

Thank you for your information request, dated 16 March 2022 where you asked for the following information:

Under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, we request the following information:

1) Does the MHRA currently receive any funding, or has the MHRA received any funding at any time between January 1960 and March 2022, from any of the following companies, individuals and/or charities:

  • NATURES AID LTD

  • HEALTH STYLE LIMITED

  • STADA UK HOLDINGS LTD.

  • STADA Arzneimittel AG (Germany)

  • Peter Goldschmidt

  • INTERNIS PHARMACEUTICALS LIMITED

  • SOCIALITES RETAIL LIMITED

  • SOCIALITES E-COMMERCE LIMITED

  • THORNTON & ROSS LIMITED

  • CROSSPHARMA LIMITED

  • SLAM TRADING LIMITED

  • Roger Lidderdale SCARLETT-SMITH

  • Edwin Charles BLYTHE

  • Frank SEILER

  • Any charity organisation or company linked to or associated with Peter Goldschmidt

  • Schwabe Pharma (UK) Limited

  • BIOPLANTA UK LIMITED

  • DR. WILLMAR SCHWABE (UK) LIMITED

  • MEDIC HERB (UK) LIMITED

  • Oliver SCHULZ

  • dr Willmar Schwabe GmbH & Co. KG (Germany)

2) If yes, which company, individual or charity has the MHRA received funding from and when?

Please find attached the amount billed for any relevant companies detailed in your email, along with the dates of billing. If the customer is not included it can be assumed that we have not received any income from them.

Please note, our financial systems were updated and replaced in 2017 and can therefore only retrieve data to 2017. To extract data beyond this point would fall exempt under Section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act.

Section 12 of the Act allows public authorities to refuse requests where the cost of dealing with them would exceed the appropriate limit, which for central government is set at £600. This represents the estimated cost of one person spending 24 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.

If you disagree with how we have interpreted the Freedom of Information Act 2000 with regards to your request, you can ask for the decision to be reviewed. The review will be carried out by a senior member of the Agency who was not involved with the original decision.

If you have a query about the information provided, please reply to this email.

Due to the ongoing Covid-19 situation, we are not able to accept delivery of any documents or correspondence by post or courier to any of our offices.

Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

If you were to remain dissatisfied with the outcome of the internal review, you would have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Please bear in mind that the Information Commissioner will not normally review our handling of your request unless you have first contacted us to conduct an internal review. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Yours sincerely

MHRA Customer Experience Centre

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