3rd reading: House of Commons & Report stage: House of Commons
Tuesday 17th July 2018

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Antoinette Sandbach Portrait Antoinette Sandbach (Eddisbury) (Con)
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AstraZeneca has a supply line of 4,000 people in the north-west. They assist in the manufacturing of a cancer drug that is exported to Europe. Without that export to Europe it would not be viable, because it helps 130,000 people across Europe. Does my hon. Friend agree that remaining in the European Medicines Agency would allow such frictionless trade to carry on?

Phillip Lee Portrait Dr Lee
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I do. A number of pharmaceutical companies have already made plans for no deal by taking warehouse space to import drugs in advance of 29 March so that patients do not go without their medications.