Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many contracts they have signed for additional cold chain capacity for medicines after the UK leaves the EU.

In October, the Department invited wholesalers and pre-wholesalers of pharmaceutical warehouse space to bid for Government funding to secure the additional capacity needed for stockpiled medicines covering ambient, cold chain and controlled drug storage. We had a good response to that invitation and funding for selected organisations has now been agreed. Contracts will be signed shortly.