Schools: Asthma
Commons · Question 62446 · Tabled 24 Jun 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 2 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Ayoub Khan
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential benefits of requiring schools to hold emergency asthma inhalers.
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 2 Jul 2025
Schools are permitted to buy salbutamol inhalers, without a prescription, for use in emergencies. An emergency salbutamol inhaler should only be used by children who have either been diagnosed with asthma and prescribed an inhaler, or who have been prescr...