Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the cost to the NHS of procuring (a) chartered flights and (b) rolling ships to stockpile medicines (i) to date, (ii) until 29 March 2019, (iii) after 29 March 2019 in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.

The Department’s ‘no deal’ European Union exit medicines supply contingency plans do not confer any cost to the National Health Service of procuring flights or ships to stockpile medicines either before or beyond 29 March 2019 in the unlikely event that the United Kingdom leaves the European Union without a deal.