Question follow-through · 32561
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.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 21 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 26 Feb 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 Feb 2025
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.
25 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
26 Feb 2025
Answer published
The resilience of the United Kingdom’s supply chains is a key priority, and we are committed to helping build long term supply chain resilience for medicines. The Department works in partnership with industry, the National Health Service, and the wider he...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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