Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has for maintaining access to (a) the European Reference Network on paediatric haemato-oncology and (b) other European reference networks in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.

The Government would prefer to leave the European Union with a deal and will work in an energetic and determined way to get a better deal. However, if we were to leave the EU without a deal, it is expected that the United Kingdom would lose membership of European Reference Networks. UK patients will continue to benefit from the world-leading clinical expertise available here in the UK and patients will have the same access to UK expertise as they do now.