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 help ensure that an adequate number of medical devices are available on the UK market.

The response to the future medical device regulations consultation, published in June 2022, outlined changes supporting innovation in United Kingdom’s life sciences and access to medical devices.

The Government is fully committed to protecting the continuity of supply of medical devices and providing sufficient time for industry to transition to any new requirements.

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has confirmed that devices “Conformité Européene” marked under the most recent European Union regulations can continue to be placed on the Great Britain market for up to five years from July 2024, when the new UK regime is planned to take effect.

MHRA is developing a world-leading regulatory framework for the UK that will ensure the ongoing availability of adequate numbers of medical devices.