Question follow-through · 4937
Obesity: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of online advertising regulations for prescription weight loss drugs.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Sept 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Sept 2024
- Answer
- 12 Sept 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of online advertising regulations for prescription weight loss drugs.
12 Sept 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Sept 2024
Answer published
The advertising and promotion of medicines in the United Kingdom is set out under the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 (Part 14). These legal requirements are set out in the Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) Blue Guide, which is ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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