Question follow-through · 89569
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the safety of talc used in medical products.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 19 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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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 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the safety of talc used in medical products.
13 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is the Government agency responsible for ensuring that medicines and medical devices work and are acceptably safe.Additives in medicines, termed excipients, are required to comply with the stan...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Dental Health: Antibiotics
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of advising prophylactic antibiotics for those at risk of endocarditis from basic dental examinations.