Question follow-through · 12255
Diethylstilbestrol
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training healthcare professionals are given on the impacts of diethylstilbestrol.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 29 Jun 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
23 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what training healthcare professionals are given on the impacts of diethylstilbestrol.
25 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jun 2026
Answer published
I apologise and express my sincere sympathy to all those affected by exposure to diethylstilbestrol (DES), including those exposed in utero and their families.The Government’s focus is on carefully considering the available evidence and determining the mo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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