Question follow-through · 3004
Autoimmune Diseases: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help tackle medication shortages, particularly those for (a) auto-immune and (b) muscle weakness conditions.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 19 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2026
- Answer
- 1 Jun 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
19 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help tackle medication shortages, particularly those for (a) auto-immune and (b) muscle weakness conditions.
21 May 2026
Target answer date
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1 Jun 2026
Answer published
Medicine supply chains are complex, global, and highly regulated and there are a number of reasons why supply can be disrupted, many of which are not specific to the United Kingdom and outside of Government control, including manufacturing difficulties, a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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