Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 7 January 2019 to Question 203371, what (a) medicines and (b) other medical products his Department plans to store in the additional refrigerated storage space.

The Department will publish the names of successful contractors when the tender process is complete and all contracts have been signed.

The Department recognises that through our ‘no deal’ European Union exit medicines and medical supply contingency programmes we are requesting sensitive commercial information from pharmaceutical and medical device suppliers. To reassure participating companies, we have committed to treating all information received confidentially, securely and to using it only for the purposes of the Department’s programme. That means not introducing information about specific companies or products into the public domain.