Question follow-through · 57256
NHS: Drugs
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the UK leaving the EU on medicine shortages in the UK.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 4 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jun 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the UK leaving the EU on medicine shortages in the UK.
9 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jun 2025
Answer published
The United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020. The Department has not made a specific assessment of the potential impact on medicine shortages in the UK.Medicine supply chains are complex, global, and highly regulated, and there are a numb...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Pulmonary Fibrosis: Medical Treatments
20 Feb 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with his counterparts in the devolved Administrations on treatment for people with pulmonary fibrosis.