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date	30/04/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Mefloquine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 29 April 2024 to Question 23368 on Armed Forces: Mefloquine, how many of the common law claims have been resolved; and how many unresolved common law claims are the subject of continuing legal action.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	24178
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2024 answer text <p>To date, 60 claims have been partially settled and three claims have been fully settled. Partially settled claims are those where damages have been agreed and paid to a Claimant, but where the Claimant's solicitor's costs remain in dispute.</p><p>A total of 457 claims are the subject of continuing legal action, in that they have not yet been resolved.</p><p>A trial has been listed for March 2025 to establish generic issues. At this trial 10 lead cases from the largest Claimant cohort will be heard. The trial means that all other claims are stayed until the outcome of the lead cases is decided.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 07/05/2024 16:19:15 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope

1713581

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date	24/04/2024
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Armed Forces: Mefloquine
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many claims have been made by current or former service personnel in respect of adverse effects caused by being prescribed the drug mefloquine, larium, in each of the last three years for which information is available; and of those, how many have been resolved.
tabling member constituency	Christchurch
tabling member printed	Sir Christopher Chope
uin	23368
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The Department has been notified of a total of 686 common law claims relating to the alleged adverse effects of Lariam. A breakdown of claims in each of the last three years is not readily available, however, most the claims were notified prior to April 2021. The Ministry of Defence continues to resolve claims wherever possible.</p> answering member constituency South West Wiltshire answering member printed Dr Andrew Murrison question first answered 29/04/2024 14:58:04 answering member 1466 label Biography information for Dr Andrew Murrison
tabling member	242 label Biography information for Sir Christopher Chope