Moved by
Baroness Cumberlege
121: After Clause 38, insert the following new Clause—
“Independent medicines and medical devices safety review: task force for implementation
(1) Within three months of this Act being passed, the Secretary of State must appoint an independent task force.
(2) The task force must—
(a) have an independent Chair;
(b) be accountable to an oversight governance board; and
(c) include representatives of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, published on 8 July 2020.
(3) The task force’s functions are—
(a) to deliver a timeline for the implementation in full of the recommendations of the Review in subsection (2)(c); and
(b) to implement the recommendations of the Review in subsection (2)(c).
(4) Once the task force has fulfilled the functions in subsection (3), it will cease to exist.”
Member’s explanatory statement
This new clause would establish the task force whose role it would be to implement recommendations set out in the report of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review.