Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 38407

Diethylstilbestrol

Tabled: 14 March 2025

Answered: 26 March 2025

Question

Lisa Smart

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to support people who have reported (a) long-term health and (b) personal impacts due to being prescribed Diethylstilbestrol (DES) between 1950 and 1980.

Answer

Karin Smyth

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) regulates medicines supplied in the United Kingdom. Our activity spans the whole of a medicine’s lifecycle. Diethylstilboestrol (DES) is an oestrogenic hormone formerly used in the treatment o...

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