Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the effect of the full implementation of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland on the supply of medicines to Northern Ireland from Great Britain.

On 17 December 2021, the European Union issued unilateral measures intended to address the barriers created by the Protocol to supplying medicines from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. The Government is working with industry to assess these measures in detail and monitor industry behaviour and the impact on patients. We will consider whether the changes to EU law would sufficiently address the issues that the UK Government and stakeholders have identified on the operation of the Protocol.