How is the MHRA financed?
Dear Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency,
We would like to know to what extent (in £ Sterling and in proportion of the budget) is the MHRA is funded by:
- Charitable foundations and non-profit organisations
- Pharmaceutical manufacturers
- Other private companies
Please specify which companies, foundations and organisations and the size of their contributions.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Tess Lawrie
Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy Ltd.
Bath, UK
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FOI 21/531
Dear Dr. Tess Lawrie,
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The attached document details all income raised by MHRA for the year
2019-2020.
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Bartholomeus Lakeman (Account suspended) left an annotation ()
Added to the above annotation.
If a large donation has been done for tax relieve: a possible total between 20 and 60 million pounds: which when paid could become a fund from the ‘elected’ DHSC to MHRA: then its response (to) rate between public interests (tax payers) -vs- Pharmaceutical companies’ interest = 1 -vs- ± 1.
For the above calculation; one needs to know of a big donating company its made profits and how much tax it had paid, and which difference its donation made to the tax paid.
Further it would be in the public interest to get sight of each HMRA member which financial strings or other interests (s)he has.
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During 2020 MHRA received £163,281,911; out which it received from:
DHSC (funded by tax payers) ± 47million (± 27%).
MHRA (fees from pharma companies) ± 4 million (± 2%).
Imperial College, CEPI and Oxford- Uni and other Universities (funded by B Gates and Big Pharma) ±12 million (±8%).
Pharmaceutical companies (± 6,200) ±£100 million (63%). Out of which there were ± 45 companies who made donations over 280,000 pounds; out of which 15 companies (many foreign) donated between 0.5 and 1 million and 11 companies donated between 1 and 3.3 million pounds (the latter summing up a total of 12% of total received).
A large donation might be done for tax relieve; or it has the character of an investment which might expect a reciprocity response*.
To note is that many a big company has a subsidiary(ies) of which each makes separate donations; which reduces transparency.
If funds are linked to a mutual exchange of considerations*, then the rate between MHRA responding to the public interests (tax payers) -vs- Pharmaceutical companies’ interest = 1 -vs- 3: which explains a lot.