Question follow-through · 85703

Diabetes: Eyesight

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure more widespread availability of the drug 2-HDP.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 28 Oct 2025
Target answer date: 3 Nov 2025
Answer: 3 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

28 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure more widespread availability of the drug 2-HDP.
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Nov 2025
Answer published
We are pleased to see promising results from the Queen's University Belfast study into the novel drug known as 2-Hydrazino-4,6-dimethylpyrimidine (2-HDP). This demonstrates the strength of the United Kingdom’s clinical research environment and the importa...

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