| Heading: |
Sodium Valproate: Compensation |
| Question ID: |
1812910 |
| UIN: |
60066 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-16 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4436 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Cat Smith
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| Asking Member handle: |
CatSmithMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@CatSmithMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of potential claimants for redress for valproate. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-30 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4981 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Ashley Dalton
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| Answering Member handle: |
AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answer text: |
The Government is carefully considering the work by the Patient Safety Commissioner and her report, which set out options for redress for those harmed by valproate and pelvic mesh. This is a complex issue involving input from different Government departme... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |