Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will produce a cross-government plan for the issuing of medicinal cannabis under prescription by the end of 2019.

The Department will continue to work closely with other Departments to implement the Government’s policy on access to cannabis-based products for medicinal use; to work with researchers, the industry and others to improve the evidence base for these products; to ensure product availability; and to provide clinicians with guidance on prescribing these products where clinically appropriate.