United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 76300
Diethylstilbestrol
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10 September 2025
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17 October 2025 · Answer
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17 October 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to ensure that historic (a) NHS and (b) GP records can be reviewed to identify women who were prescribed Diethylstilbestrol between the 1940s and 1970s.
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10 September 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will take steps to ensure that historic (a) NHS and (b) GP records can be reviewed to identify women who were prescribed Diethylstilbestrol between the 1940s and 1970s.
Source: Commons
17 October 2025
Answer
The issue of diethylstilbesterol (DES) and vaginal carcinoma in the daughters of women who took DES during pregnancy was reviewed by the Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) in the early 1970s. In 1973, the CSM wrote to all doctors to inform them of the...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-09-10/76300
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1833893
- uk · wq-1833893 · source updated 17 October 2025