Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 82840

Drugs: Supply Chains

Tabled: 16 October 2025
Answered: 24 October 2025

Question

Bradley Thomas

ConservativeBromsgrove

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) improve medical supply chains and (b) ensure that patients are able to obtain medications prescribed to them; and what assessment he has made of the poten

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
In early August, the Department published the policy paper Managing a robust and resilience supply of medicines, which provides greater transparency of the supply chains we rely on, the actions we take to protect patients from medicine shortages when they...

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