Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, (a) how many women aged 15-45 years were prescribed sodium valproate in May 2022 and (b) how many women aged 15-45 years who has been prescribed sodium valproate have had their prescription changed to another anti-epileptic drug for every month between May and November 2022.

This information is not held in the format requested. The Medicines and Pregnancy Registry contains data on every woman in England receiving National Health Service-prescribed sodium valproate and all other antiepileptics taken during pregnancy and whether the individual is pregnant. The Registry was last updated in September 2022 and includes data from April 2018 to March 2022.