Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will allow restaurants to buy and store adrenaline auto-injectors.

We have no plans to do so. Adrenaline Auto Injectors are injectable prescription only medicines. Under the Human Medicines Regulations 2012, they can only be administered by, or in accordance with, the directions of a prescriber except for the purpose of saving life in an emergency. However, this does not allow anyone to obtain stocks of the medicine in advance of an emergency. In effect, the law only allows settings such as hospitals and schools to do so. Extending this to restaurants could pose substantial risks that are likely to outweigh potential benefits.