Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 106968

Sodium Valproate: Compensation

Tabled: 20 January 2026
Answered: 27 January 2026

Question

Bob Blackman

ConservativeHarrow East

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of international no-fault compensation schemes for medicine-induced harm, including those in New Zealand, Sweden and Denmark, in rel

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
The Department’s consideration of the Hughes Report’s recommendations for redress for those harmed by sodium valproate will take account of how other countries have chosen to approach this issue.This is a complex, cross-Government policy area involving mu...

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