Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to implement a compensation framework for people who have experienced harm as a result of Primodos.

The Government’s response to the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review (IMMDS) was published on 21 July 2021. We did not accept the report’s fourth recommendation, which called for separate redress schemes should be set up for hormone pregnancy tests such as Primodos, sodium valproate and pelvic mesh

Our priority is to make medicines and devices safer. The Government’s response sets out the changes in place since the IMMDS Review’s report was published and further action we will take to implement the recommendations accepted and to improve patient safety.