Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has taken steps to create a redress agency for people harmed by medicines, including sodium valproate, as recommended in the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review.
We have no current plans to establish a redress agency. The Government is able to establish redress schemes on individual issues without the need for a new organisation and has done so several times. Our primary focus is on improving medicines and medical devices safety, setting high standards for industry to market and manufacture products, with the aim of reducing harm in the future.