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Hormone Treatments: Sales

Commons · Question 27169 · Tabled 29 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 4 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by Sir Julian Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to prevent health companies based overseas from selling hormone treatments online to people living in the UK.

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 4 Feb 2025

In response to recommendations by the Commission on Human Medicines, my Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care announced an indefinite ban on gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogues for new patients with gender dysphoria...