Department of Health Richmond House 79 Whitehall London SW1A 2NS 1st August 2013 Dear Ms. Mclean, Thank you for your letter of 22nd July to Earl Howe about homeopathy. I have been asked to reply. The majority of independent scientists consider the evidence for the efficacy of homeopathy to be weak or absent, and that there is no plausible scientific mechanism for homeopathy. The Department is not aware of any new evidence that changes this position or the Government's response, which was published in July 2010, to the Commons Science and Technology Committee Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy, which remains that it is unlikely that this controversy could be resolved by further analysis of literature or research on the efficacy of homeopathy. (!) (full letter sent to Petition signatories) Yours sincerely, Ministerial Correspondence and Public Enquiries