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date	06/02/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Insulin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to help ensure people who require insulin are aware of alternative medications.
tabling member constituency	Tiverton and Honiton
tabling member printed	Richard Foord
uin	13484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>We are aware of a supply disruption affecting Tresiba (Insulin degludec) FlexTouch 100 units per millilitre solution for injection three millilitre pre-filled pens. While we do not hold information on number of people affected by this issue, we have worked with industry to identify suitable alternatives and can confirm that Tresiba Penfill cartridges are available and can fully support the increase in demand.</p><p>A National Patient Safety Alert was issued for Tresiba Flextouch pens on Friday 8 December 2023, providing updates to the National Health Service about the supply issue and providing advice for healthcare professionals on how to manage patients during the supply disruption. Any patient who is concerned should speak to their clinician.</p><p>There is a team within the Department that deals specifically with medicine supply problems. It has well-established tools and processes to manage medicine supply issues, working closely with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the pharmaceutical industry, NHS England and others operating in the supply chain to help prevent shortages and expedite resupply as soon as possible to ensure that the risks to patients are minimised. Information on the number of people affected by the supply issue is not held.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 13483 13485 question first answered 19/02/2024 17:31:52 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4942 label Biography information for Richard Foord

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date	06/02/2020
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	EnAble Fund for Elected Office: Expenditure
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, how much funding the Government Equalities Office has (a) allocated to and (b) spent on the EnAble Fund since the launch of that fund.
tabling member constituency	Motherwell and Wishaw
tabling member printed	Marion Fellows
uin	13484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2020 answer text <p>The interim EnAble Fund for Elected Office was set up to cover scheduled elections between December 2018 and March 2020. It has an allocated budget of £330,000 of which £103,000 has been spent.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 11/02/2020 16:51:54 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4440 label Biography information for Marion Fellows