Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 62446

Schools: Asthma

Tabled: 24 June 2025
Answered: 2 July 2025

Question

Ayoub Khan

IndependentBirmingham Perry Barr

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential benefits of requiring schools to hold emergency asthma inhalers.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
Schools are permitted to buy salbutamol inhalers, without a prescription, for use in emergencies. An emergency salbutamol inhaler should only be used by children who have either been diagnosed with asthma and prescribed an inhaler, or who have been prescr...

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