Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will meet members of the Medcan Family Foundation to discuss the availability of advanced unlicensed medicinal cannabis for those people who had been diagnosed with childhood epilepsy.

Health Ministers have met with families and patients and have discussed the challenges around the use of unlicensed cannabis-based medicines at great length in Parliament., Ministers are focused on galvanising research to determine if these products are safe and effective and might be funded within the National Health Service.

The National Institute for Health and Care Research and NHS England will be supporting two world-first randomised control trials on cannabinoids in the treatment of epilepsy. When further details on the trials is available, we will ensure the Medcan Family Foundation are informed.