FOI release

VMD FOI requests received between 1 January and 30 June 2018

Published 12 July 2018

1. Requests for Corporate information

ATI reference number	Subject
ATI505	Request for information relating to job descriptions for our scientific assessors
ATI513	Request for a breakdown of all fees paid by Veterinary Pharmaceutical companies specifying the amount of the fee and which company paid the fee - from the past five years to the latest available date annually
ATI518	Request for a list of all private meetings (with whom – NGOs, private companies, consulting companies, etc) the VMD has had in the past 5 years”. Defined ‘private’ meetings as any meeting which took place as part of policy, licensing or other work which was not an open meeting
ATI521	Request for list of all private meetings the VMD has had (so all meetings that are not open meetings, meetings that took places as part of policy, licensing) in the year 2017 up to now? Defined ‘private’ meetings as any meeting which took place as part of policy, licensing work, which was not an open meeting
ATI524	Request for information on staff pay and executive emoluments
ATI527	Request for information relating to external print purchasing and related activity
ATI531	Request for information on the VMD’s contract relating to an energy management system

2. Requests for about our information and communications technology (ICT) arrangements

ATI reference number	Subject
ATI510	Request for information relating to social media and other ICT
ATI516	Request for information relating to contract information with regards to the VMD’s telephone system maintenance contract (VOIP or PBX, other) for hardware and Software maintenance and support
ATI520	Request for breakdown of the VMD’s hardware support contracts
ATI530	Request for information on the total number of recorded cyber-attacks, broken down by year and by type of attack
ATI532	Request for information concerning the types of accounting software and applications

3. Requests for information about the Veterinary Products Committee (VPC)

ATI reference number	Subject
ATI509	Request for information regarding the VPC’s energy supply contracts – it doesn’t have any
ATI522	Request for information about the VPC and courier services – it doesn’t have any
ATI523	Request for information about the VPC and courier services – it doesn’t have any
ATI525	Request for information about the VPC and courier services – it doesn’t have any
ATI526	Request for information about the VPC and courier services – it doesn’t have any

4. Requests for information about certain veterinary medicinal products

ATI reference number	Subject
ATI507	Request for information relating to Benzoak Vet and imported under the Special Import Scheme - specifically how many litres have been imported during the period 1 Jan 2013 to 21 Dec 2017
ATI508	Request for the number of Marketing Authorisations (MAs) approved by the VMD between April 2009 and March 2016 - you can find details of MAs in the Product Information Database (PID)
ATI519	Request for “canine Lepto vaccine sales figures for the 2017 period spilt in to two groups
ATI533	Request for information relating to the SPC for Equest Pramox 19.5 mg/g + 121.7 mg/g oral gel (Vm 42058/4058)
ATI536	Request for the volume of sucralfate (Sucrabest) imported into the UK for the treatment of horses

5. Requests for Pharmacovigilance information

ATI reference number	Subject
ATI504	Request for information on human and animal adverse reactions to fipronil sprays for dogs and cats over the past 5 years
ATI506	Request for information on adverse events reports referring to the safety of the ruminal device – Kexxtone
ATI514	Request for all pharmacovigilance information that VMD hold for Rotavec Corona Emulsion for Injection Vaccine, Intervet UK Ltd (Vm No. 01708/4556) - on a yearly basis over the past 3-5 years with details of the nature of each PV report made (or as much detail as VMD can provide)
ATI534	Request for the incidence of adverse effects (A, B, O) of all authorised ectoparasiticides spot-on for dogs containing permethrin with specific incidence given for each product separately if possible: incidence EU, US and worldwide per year for the last 5 years
ATI535	Request for the incidence of adverse effects of the veterinary medicinal product Orbeseal Dry Cow Intramammary Suspension per year for the first 5 years of marketing in Europe from 2003 until 2008: yearly European and worldwide incidences separately if possible with the main clinical signs reported

6. Requests for information relating to the work of our Antimicrobial Resistance Team

ATI reference number	Subject
ATI512	Request for information in respect to antiprotozoal sales data (including the coccidiostat sales data) - the data for the period 2006 to 2011, or for the greatest number of years for which there is comparable revised data
ATI528	Request for “all correspondence sent to DEFRA or VMD between May 1 2016 and November 30th 2016 regarding the proposed recommendations from the O’Neill report and the accepted policies by the Government.
ATI529	Request for information on the use of antimicrobials in food, including grains, chicken, eggs, milk, beef, pork and game

7. Requests for certain information relating to Inspections

ATI reference number	Subject
ATI511	Request for information relating to the operation of the VMD’s inspections of veterinary premises
ATI515	Request for information relating to certain manufacturing sites

8. Requests for information relating to the work of our Enforcement Team

ATI reference number	Subject
ATI517	Request for all electronic and paper communication regarding a “complaint” made to our Enforcement Team