Written questions

Multiple Sclerosis: Women

Commons · Question 99732 · Tabled 15 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 22 Dec 2025

Question

Asked by Jim Shannon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to address multiple sclerosis in the updated Women’s Health Strategy; and whether there will be discussions on how this can inform development of the Northern Ireland

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 22 Dec 2025

We know that women can be impacted by a range of different health conditions at the same time, including those that only affect women, those that affect women differently or more severely to men, or those that affect everyone equally. This is why the rene...