Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 31240

Drugs: Shortages

Tabled: 12 February 2025
Answered: 24 February 2025

Question

Alex McIntyre

LabourGloucester

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help tackle medication shortages in Gloucester constituency.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The Department has a responsibility to work with medicine license holders in the United Kingdom to help ensure continuity of supply. We monitor and manage medicine supply issues at a national level so that stocks remain available to meet regional and loca...

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