Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to take action against companies who are advertising puberty blocking drugs online.

Strict regulatory controls govern medicinal products for human use including their manufacture, distribution, retail sale and supply and advertisement.

Prescription-only medicines cannot be advertised direct to the public and an advertisement offering to sell or supply a prescription-only medicines directly to a patient would be likely to contravene the requirements of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012.

Any report of non-compliant activity relating the advertising of a POM would be investigated by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and necessary action would be taken.