Question follow-through · 67249
Skin Diseases: Steroid Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of topical steroid creams on (a) physical dependency and (b) withdrawal effects among users.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 11 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 18 Jul 2025 · 7 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
11 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of topical steroid creams on (a) physical dependency and (b) withdrawal effects among users.
15 Jul 2025
Target answer date
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18 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has reviewed topical steroid withdrawal (TSW) reactions, and first communicated about these reactions in September 2021 through our Drug Safety Update, which is widely disseminated among healt...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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