Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 58827

Drugs: Shortages

Tabled: 10 June 2025
Answered: 16 June 2025

Question

Ian Roome

Liberal DemocratNorth Devon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 6 June 2025 to Question 55942 on Drugs, what steps his Department is taking to source medications from other manufacturers; and for what reason there has been a shortage o

Answer

Karin Smyth
Trandolapril is supplied by two suppliers in the United Kingdom who are both currently experiencing manufacturing issues. The Department issued comprehensive management plans, including advice on alternative medicines, on 17 September 2024 to the National...

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