Question follow-through · 73954
Obesity: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to expand access to weight loss medications through the NHS.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 1 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 19 Sept 2025 · 18 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
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Recorded timeline
1 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to expand access to weight loss medications through the NHS.
3 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Sept 2025
Answer published
Until recently, the newest obesity medicines liraglutide, under various brand names, semaglutide, under the brand name Wegovy, and tirzepatide, under the brand name Mounjaro, have only been available via the National Health Service through specialist weig...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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