Debates between Gavin Robinson and Matt Hancock during the 2019-2024 Parliament

Mon 16th Mar 2020

Covid-19

Debate between Gavin Robinson and Matt Hancock
Monday 16th March 2020

(4 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Gavin Robinson Portrait Gavin Robinson (Belfast East) (DUP)
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Thank you for your generosity in letting this statement run, Mr Speaker, and I thank the Health Secretary for dealing with all the questions. What advice does the Secretary of State have for my constituent Mr Emerson, who is in London today to collect a private script for medicinal cannabis for his daughter, who, at three years old, relies upon it? He can only cash the private script in London, and he has to travel to London every month. He has asked for three months’ supply in case he cannot travel from Belfast to London in the months to come. Can the Health Secretary give any advice or guidance to him or to the chief pharmaceutical officer?

Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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We are trying to address the precise point of the supply of medicinal cannabis products through a change to the Home Office regulations anyway. The advice is against unnecessary travel, and the sort of travel that the hon. Gentleman describes sounds very necessary to me.