Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that people living with urinary incontinence have access to high quality medical devices after Brexit.

The Department, in consultation with the devolved administrations and Crown Dependencies, are working with trade bodies, suppliers, and the health and care system to make detailed plans to help ensure continued supply of medicines and medical products, including incontinence products, at the end of the transition period.

As set out in the attached letter from the Department to industry of 3 August, we are implementing a multi-layered approach, that involves asking suppliers to get trader ready, consider alternative routes away from potential disruption and stockpiling to a target level of six weeks on United Kingdom soil where this is possible.