Question follow-through · 43048
Sodium Valproate: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if monies will be noted in the April budget which includes the interim payment for people impacted by Valproate.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 1 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 22 Apr 2025 · 21 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if monies will be noted in the April budget which includes the interim payment for people impacted by Valproate.
3 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
22 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Spring Statement demonstrated that the Government has taken the decisions necessary to provide security, reform the state, and grow the economy. The Government remains committed to holding only one major fiscal event a year, to give families and busin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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