Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 76300
Diethylstilbestrol
Tabled: 10 September 2025
Answered: 17 October 2025
Question
Mohammad Yasin
Labour — Bedford
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to ensure that historic (a) NHS and (b) GP records can be reviewed to identify women who were prescribed Diethylstilbestrol between the 1940s and 1970s.
Answer
Dr Zubir AhmedThe issue of diethylstilbesterol (DES) and vaginal carcinoma in the daughters of women who took DES during pregnancy was reviewed by the Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) in the early 1970s. In 1973, the CSM wrote to all doctors to inform them of the...
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