Question follow-through · 63540
Sodium Valproate: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to respond to the Hughes Report before 23 July 2025.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 9 Jul 2025 · 9 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
30 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to respond to the Hughes Report before 23 July 2025.
9 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Government is carefully considering the work done by the Patient Safety Commissioner and her report, which set out options for redress for those harmed by valproate and pelvic mesh. This is a complex issue involving input from different Government dep...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Low Alcohol Drinks: Prices
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Alcoholic Drinks: Prices
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Surgical Mesh Implants
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if there is a Hospital Episode Statistics code used to record instances of mesh used for rectopexy.
Surgical Mesh Implants
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Foetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder
29 Aug 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 August 2025 to Question 65738 on Foetal Valproate Spectrum Disorder, if he will make interim payments to valproate families following the end of the pilot project.
Hernias: Surgical Mesh Implants
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