Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 118726

Fampridine

Tabled: 9 March 2026
Answered: 18 March 2026

Question

Mr Toby Perkins

Labour — Chesterfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a comparative assessment of the adequacy of availability of fampridine (fampyra) for patients across the four nations of the UK.

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
Health is a devolved matter and decisions on the availability of medicines in the devolved administrations are a matter for their own governments.Ministers and Department officials have had no recent discussions with the National Institute for Health and ...
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