Question follow-through · 44527
Diethylstilbestrol
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to identify people exposed to Diethylstilbestrol.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 19 May 2025 · 42 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
7 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to identify people exposed to Diethylstilbestrol.
22 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 May 2025
Answer published
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18 Aug 2025
Answer corrected
In 1971, it was identified in a US study that DES could cause a distinct type of cancer in the daughters of women who took DES in early pregnancy. It was subsequently contraindicated in pregnancy, pre-menopausal women, children and young adults. The issu...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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