Drugs: Refrigerators

(asked on 9th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the evidential basis is for his 18 December 2018 statement that his Department has become the largest buyer of fridges in the world.


Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 14th January 2019

As part of the Department’s ‘no deal’ European Union exit contingency planning, a tender process to procure additional warehouse space to store stockpiled medicines within the mainland United Kingdom, including ambient, refrigerated and controlled drug storage, was undertaken in October 2018. Contract agreements for storage have recently been signed or will be signed imminently.

Those contracts are expected to cover additional capacity including 53,000 pallets of ambient storage, 5,000 pallets of refrigerated storage and 850 pallets of controlled drug storage. The Department’s funding for additional warehouse capacity is on the condition that it is exclusively for the storage of additional stockpiles of medicines.

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