Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance her Department has issued to general practitioners for treating armed forces veterans; and what assessment she has made of the impact on the formulation of this guidance of NHS England's recent recognition that mefloquine toxicity exists, with particular reference to screening questions investigating whether the antimalarial drug lariam has previously been prescribed.

The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.