Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make it his policy to negotiate continued access to the EU's rapid alert procedure on recall for medicinal products after the UK leaves the EU.

The Government has made no firm decision on what medicines regulation will look like after the United Kingdom has left the European Union. Therefore, no decision has been taken on the UK’s future participation in the European Medicines Agency Procedure for Handling Rapid Alerts Arising from Quality Defects. The Government is considering all options for UK medicines regulation.