Question follow-through · 93987
Phenylketonuria: Health Foods
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of replacing prescriptions for low protein foods with targeted financial support for patients with Phenylketonuria to buy products directly.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 24 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 1 Dec 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of replacing prescriptions for low protein foods with targeted financial support for patients with Phenylketonuria to buy products directly.
26 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Department is not planning to assess the feasibility of replacing prescriptions for low protein foods with targeted financial support for individuals with phenylketonuria (PKU).In England, low protein products are available to all eligible patients on...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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