Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent representations he has made to his German counterpart on thalidomide damage in the UK.

I met with the Thalidomide Trust on 23 June 2014 and subsequently wrote to Manuela Schwesig, Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, on behalf of all four UK Governments, asking if she would meet with the Trust.