Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department consulted organisations working for and on behalf of individuals who require health and social care services on the effect on those sectors (a) throughout the UK and (b) in each of the four nations of the UK of leaving the EU.

The Department has regular conversations with health and social care organisations such as charities and patient advocacy groups as well as with the devolved administrations to ensure an exit is delivered which works for the health and social care sector throughout the entire United Kingdom.