Question follow-through · 95382
Sodium Valproate and Surgical Mesh Implants: Compensation
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide redress for mesh and sodium valproate families.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 28 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 3 Dec 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide redress for mesh and sodium valproate families.
3 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
3 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Government is carefully considering the work by the Patient Safety Commissioner and her report, which set out options for redress for those harmed by valproate and pelvic mesh. This is a complex issue involving input from different Government departme...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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