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Folic Acid

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2026 to Question 3756 on Folic Acid, who authorised the removal of people with stents and those receiving kidney dialysis from NHS guidance on groups unable to tak

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
16 Jun 2026
Target answer date
18 Jun 2026
Answer
1 Jul 2026 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 16 Jun 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2026 to Question 3756 on Folic Acid, who authorised the removal of people with stents and those receiving kidney dialysis from NHS guidance on groups unable to tak

  2. 18 Jun 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 1 Jul 2026

    Answer published

    The National Health Service website section on medicines is in the process of being transformed. NHS England undertook in-depth research to understand what the user needs are for medicine information on the NHS.UK website and then designed, tested, and it...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Possible follow-up questions

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Department of Health and Social Care: Written Questions

17 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many times his Department has responded to a written parliamentary question saying that the information is not held in 2026.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Folic Acid

2 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2026 to Question 3756 on Folic Acid, whether he is taking steps to help ensure patients will be made aware of the fortification of non-wholemeal wheat flour; and w

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Folic Acid

2 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 February 2026 to Question 113069 on Folic Acid, to clarify where the impact assessment has been published as it is not available on the cited link.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Folic Acid

2 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Government response of 29 June 2026 to the petition entitled End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately, what assessment he has made of the ade

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Folic Acid: Perinatal Mortality

10 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the article in The Lancet by Dr Czeizel entitled Can terathanasia explain the protective effect of folic-acid supplemen

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Obesity: Health Services

10 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the government announcement of 27 June 2026 on Pioneering projects to transform obesity care, for what reason the relevant competing interests of the quoted experts were not discl

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Health Services: Waiting Lists

14 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the reduction in the Referral to Treatment waiting list between August 2024 and March 2026 was attributable to (a) increased completed treatments and (b) non-treatment removals,

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Health Services: Waiting Lists

14 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether NHS England plans to publish monthly data showing the number of Referral to Treatment pathways removed from waiting lists by reason for removal.

Strong linkSame MP, department and exact heading

Folic Acid

14 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 July 2026 to Question 15320 on Folic Acid, with reference to the Food Standard Agency's information page entitled Guidance: Folic Acid, updated on 10 July 2026, where t

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Folic Acid: Flour

16 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Food Safety Act 1990, what is the legal basis for the adding of folic acid to non-wholewheat flour as a public health measure.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

British Liver Trust

28 Aug 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what meetings her department has had since July 2024 with the British Liver Trust, and what the dates of those meetings were.