Question follow-through · 18633
ADHD: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle shortages of ADHD medication in the North East.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 12 Dec 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle shortages of ADHD medication in the North East.
12 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Dec 2024
Answer published
The Department monitors and manages medicine supply at a national level so that stocks remain available to meet regional and local demand. Information is not collected on a local level. The Department has been working hard with industry and NHS England to...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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