Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure access to licenced Hormone Replacement Therapy implants for women.

There are currently no licensed United Kingdom suppliers of oestrogen and testosterone hormone replacement therapy (HRT) implants in the UK, and companies are free to decide what they market.

The Department is working closely with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to ensure safe access to these products. As part of this, we have also reached out to specialist importers who can source unlicensed medicines in order to find HRT implants for UK patients.