Pupils: Adrenaline Auto-injectors
Commons · Question 93928 · Tabled 24 Nov 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 2 Dec 2025
Question
Asked by Gareth Snell
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether a teacher is authorised to use a pupils' prescribed Adrenaline Auto-Injector device on a different pupil in the event of an anaphylactic emergency.
Answer
Answered by Georgia Gould, 2 Dec 2025
Regulations allow, but do not mandate, schools to obtain and hold spare adrenaline auto-injectors (AAIs). Since 1 October 2017, the Human Medicines (Amendment) Regulations 2017 has allowed all schools to purchase AAI devices without a prescription, for us...