Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lord Swire and Chris Heaton-Harris

Thursday 6th December 2018 Commons Chamber

[Chris Heaton-Harris]

As a responsible Government, we will do whatever it takes to ensure that cross-channel trade continues to move as freely as possible, and we have a range of contingency plans in place just in case. Our top priority is ensuring that traffic and goods keep moving, which is why we have been speaking directly to industry across the medical supply chain, from pharmaceutical trade bodies to storage providers, so that consumers continue and will continue to get medicines in the same way as they do now in the event of there being no deal.

[Sir Hugo Swire (East Devon) (Con)]

18. What recent discussions his Department has had with EU officials on technological solutions to avoid the proposed Northern Ireland backstop.