Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether continuity of opioid substitution treatment will be safeguarded during the covid-19 outbreak.

The Department is working closely with industry, the National Health Service and others in the supply chain to help ensure patients can access the medicines they need, including opioid substitution treatment, and precautions are in place to reduce the likelihood of future shortages.