PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Pregnancy: Sodium Valproate (17 September 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of patients of child and adult mental health services administered by the NHS have (a) fetal valproate spectrum disorder, (b) fetal valproate syndrome, (c) fetal anti-convulsant syndrome and (d) autistic spectrum disorder primarily caused by valproate in pregnancy.

Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)

We are not able to provide this information as data is not held on all patients with fetal valproate spectrum disorder, fetal valproate syndrome, fetal anti-convulsant syndrome and autistic spectrum disorder.

Answered by:
Ms Nadine Dorries (Conservative)
25 September 2020