Question follow-through · 52943
Diabetes: Semaglutide
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people with diabetes are not impacted by the shortage of Ozempic.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 May 2025
- Answer
- 21 May 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people with diabetes are not impacted by the shortage of Ozempic.
20 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 May 2025
Answer published
The Department has worked intensively with pharmaceutical industry, NHS England, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and others in the supply chain to largely resolve the supply issues with GLP-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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