Question follow-through · 89687
Obesity: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase access to weight loss injections for long-term conditions.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- 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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Recorded timeline
11 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase access to weight loss injections for long-term conditions.
13 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2025
Answer published
Weight loss injections are currently recommended for use on the National Health Service for the treatment of obesity and/or type 2 diabetes. To be routinely used in the NHS in England, a medicine normally needs a marketing authorisation from the Medicines...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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