Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he his taking to ensure the adequacy of availability of hormone replacement therapy medicines.

The Department fully understands that maintaining access to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) medications is vitally important to many people in this country.

We are aware of ongoing supply issues with some HRT preparations due to manufacturing issues. We have been working closely with all suppliers of HRT preparations to maintain overall supply to patients.

We continue to work with all stakeholders to ensure relevant information about the HRT products affected by supply issues and the products that remain available is shared across the National Health Service on a regular basis.