Brexit: Insulin Supplies

Lord Aberdare Excerpts

Thursday 24th January 2019 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Manzoor]

My Lords, of course it is important that we give assurances to all patients, irrespective of whether they are insulin users. The Government have given that assurance. We have made strong contingency plans to ensure that supplies come into the UK unhindered. The noble Lord is right: based on the regulators’ licensing data from early 2018, three-quarters of medicine is imported via the EU. I cannot give copper-bottomed guarantees; there are no such things as guarantees in life, but I can—

[Noble Lords]

Oh!

[Baroness Manzoor]

Please—the Government take this issue very seriously and have put in place proper contingency plans. I am assured, as a diabetic, that those plans are suitable.