Question follow-through · 51501
Sodium Valproate: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to provide a timeline for responding to the recommendations of the Valproate Redress Campaign.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 12 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 May 2025
- Answer
- 16 May 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to provide a timeline for responding to the recommendations of the Valproate Redress Campaign.
14 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 May 2025
Answer published
The Government is carefully considering the valuable work done by the Patient Safety Commissioner and the resulting Hughes Report, which set out options for redress for those harmed by valproate and pelvic mesh. This is a complex area of work, involving s...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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