Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions (a) he, (b) Ministers in his Department and (c) officials in his Department with NHS Trusts on implementing adequate measures to ensure access to medical cannabis for patients.

Officials in the Department have worked with colleagues in NHS England, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the Home Office and individual National Health Service trusts, as necessary, to ensure that individual patients can access cannabis-based medicinal products where specialist doctors have decided this would be clinically beneficial.