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 16 January 2019 to Question 206393 on Drugs, how many and what proportion of those contract agreements (a) have and (b) have not been signed off.

As part of the Department’s ‘no deal’ European Union exit medicines supply 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 additional storage capacity have now been signed with three companies. There are no outstanding contracts still to be signed.