Question follow-through · 24768
Enzyme Replacement Therapy: Shortages
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 on Enzyme Replacement Therapy: Drugs, what progress his Department has made in tackling shortages of (a) ADHD medication, (b) Creon and (c) other medicatio
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 24 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 14 October 2024 on Enzyme Replacement Therapy: Drugs, what progress his Department has made in tackling shortages of (a) ADHD medication, (b) Creon and (c) other medicatio
21 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Department has continued to work hard with industry and NHS England to help resolve supply issues with some attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medicines, which are affecting the United Kingdom and other countries around the world. As a re...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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