Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will take diplomatic and regulatory steps with the Dutch Ministry of Health and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to secure the emergency export release of existing Bedrolite stockpiles following the insolvency of Bedrocan; and what assessment she has made of the clinical risk of status epilepticus and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy for UK paediatric patients facing an immediate supply shortage.

The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.