Eurotunnel: Payment

John Howell Excerpts
Monday 4th March 2019

(5 years, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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It is worth pointing out that that Hancock was deliberately funny.

John Howell Portrait John Howell (Henley) (Con)
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The Secretary of State has talked about medicines, but there are also prescribed foods—for example, the gluten-free food on which some people depend. What will the situation be for those foods?

Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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Of course that matters enormously, too. Although medicines are the category 1 prioritised goods that will be using the extra procured capacity safeguarded by this settlement, there are other measures being undertaken by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to protect the supply of foods.