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registered interest
date	16/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Sodium Valproate: Prescriptions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information NHS England holds on prescribing rates of sodium valproate to women and girls of childbearing age in each clinical commissioning group; and if he will make it his policy to routinely publish that data.
tabling member constituency	Bury South
tabling member printed	Christian Wakeford
uin	91198
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2020 answer text <p>The information on prescribing of sodium valproate is not held in the format requested.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 23/09/2020 12:22:31 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4871 label Biography information for Christian Wakeford

1234555

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Asthma: Medical Equipment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care when the Government last made an assessment of the level of stockpiling of inhalers required in preparation for (a) a second wave of covid-19 and (b) the end of the transition period and if he will publish that assessment.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	90076
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2020 answer text <p>Our priority is to ensure that patients continue to have access to medicines and medical products they need. We are working closely with industry, the National Health Service and others in the supply chain to ensure that precautions are in place to reduce the likelihood of future shortages</p><p>The Government continues to hold stockpiles of medicines, including many of those medicines raised in the Rt. hon. Member’s questions, to cope with a range of scenarios, and robust contingency planning continues to ensure that the country is prepared for a possible second peak of COVID-19 infections and the end of the Transition period.</p><p>The Essential Medicines Buffer Stock (EMBS) supports the NHS in the event of a pandemic or other health emergency by ensuring the continued availability of medicines that are in routine use within the NHS in the event that the supply chain is interrupted. Volumes of the medicines listed in the EBMS for the requested dates are shown in the following table. The original EMBS contracts ended in October 2019 and the current ones expire on 31 March 2021.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Volumes in EMBS (packs/singles)</p></td><td><p>Prior to 31 October 2019</p></td><td><p>On 15 September 2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p>2,965,503</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>4,942,506</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg-Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_125mg suppository 10 pack</p></td><td><p>3,578</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_120mg/5ml liquid 100ml single</p></td><td><p>340,062</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_250mg/5ml_liquid 100ml single</p></td><td><p>201,159</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>salbutamol_2mg/ml 2.5ml_nebules 20 pack</p></td><td><p>246,246</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Salbutamol_100mcg x 200 dose_MDI single inhalers</p></td><td><p>3,956,254</p></td><td><p>2,600,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ibuprofen_100mg/5ml_liquid 100ml-150ml-500ml (volume in 100ml) singles</p></td><td><p>230,400</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ibuprofren_400mg_Caps/Tabs 84 pack</p></td><td><p>591,883</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>234,925</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>234,925</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_250mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>235,874</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_500mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>1,714,429</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>313,234</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amoxicillin_250mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>157,249</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amoxicillin_500mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>489,837</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In preparation for a potential imminent second wave of COVID-19 and to protect the security of the supply of critical life-saving medicines and patient health across the United Kingdom, a clinically-led assessment of medicines that should be stockpiled was undertaken in May and June 2020 and this was fed into a tender exercise that ran from 24 July to 10 August 2020.</p><p>Paracetamol and insulin are amongst the medicines that were identified and tendered for as part of this exercise and we will shortly be awarding contracts to secure supplies of these medicines for the autumn and winter. Details of the tender exercise can be found at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:355937-2020:HTML:EN:HTML&amp;tabId=1&amp;tabLang=en#id4-VI" target="_blank">https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:355937-2020:HTML:EN:HTML&amp;tabId=1&amp;tabLang=en#id4-VI</a></p><p><a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b8bf439c-76d1-4fa6-952d-6b65bd659021" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b8bf439c-76d1-4fa6-952d-6b65bd659021</a></p><p>With regard to stocks of medicines on UK soil owned and held by suppliers themselves, commercially sensitive information has been shared confidentially with the Department by suppliers of medicines to the UK, to support various contingency programmes. For this reason, we cannot share information received from suppliers, including on their UK stock levels, with third parties.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 90068 90069 90070 90071 90072 90073 90074 90075 90077 90078 90079 90080 90081 90083 question first answered 23/09/2020 12:14:21 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1234556

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Amoxicillin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the size of the stockpiles of amoxicillin that were available for prescription or purchase in the UK prior to 31 October 2019.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	90077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2020 answer text <p>Our priority is to ensure that patients continue to have access to medicines and medical products they need. We are working closely with industry, the National Health Service and others in the supply chain to ensure that precautions are in place to reduce the likelihood of future shortages</p><p>The Government continues to hold stockpiles of medicines, including many of those medicines raised in the Rt. hon. Member’s questions, to cope with a range of scenarios, and robust contingency planning continues to ensure that the country is prepared for a possible second peak of COVID-19 infections and the end of the Transition period.</p><p>The Essential Medicines Buffer Stock (EMBS) supports the NHS in the event of a pandemic or other health emergency by ensuring the continued availability of medicines that are in routine use within the NHS in the event that the supply chain is interrupted. Volumes of the medicines listed in the EBMS for the requested dates are shown in the following table. The original EMBS contracts ended in October 2019 and the current ones expire on 31 March 2021.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Volumes in EMBS (packs/singles)</p></td><td><p>Prior to 31 October 2019</p></td><td><p>On 15 September 2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p>2,965,503</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>4,942,506</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg-Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_125mg suppository 10 pack</p></td><td><p>3,578</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_120mg/5ml liquid 100ml single</p></td><td><p>340,062</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_250mg/5ml_liquid 100ml single</p></td><td><p>201,159</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>salbutamol_2mg/ml 2.5ml_nebules 20 pack</p></td><td><p>246,246</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Salbutamol_100mcg x 200 dose_MDI single inhalers</p></td><td><p>3,956,254</p></td><td><p>2,600,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ibuprofen_100mg/5ml_liquid 100ml-150ml-500ml (volume in 100ml) singles</p></td><td><p>230,400</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ibuprofren_400mg_Caps/Tabs 84 pack</p></td><td><p>591,883</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>234,925</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>234,925</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_250mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>235,874</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_500mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>1,714,429</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>313,234</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amoxicillin_250mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>157,249</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amoxicillin_500mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>489,837</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In preparation for a potential imminent second wave of COVID-19 and to protect the security of the supply of critical life-saving medicines and patient health across the United Kingdom, a clinically-led assessment of medicines that should be stockpiled was undertaken in May and June 2020 and this was fed into a tender exercise that ran from 24 July to 10 August 2020.</p><p>Paracetamol and insulin are amongst the medicines that were identified and tendered for as part of this exercise and we will shortly be awarding contracts to secure supplies of these medicines for the autumn and winter. Details of the tender exercise can be found at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:355937-2020:HTML:EN:HTML&amp;tabId=1&amp;tabLang=en#id4-VI" target="_blank">https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:355937-2020:HTML:EN:HTML&amp;tabId=1&amp;tabLang=en#id4-VI</a></p><p><a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b8bf439c-76d1-4fa6-952d-6b65bd659021" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b8bf439c-76d1-4fa6-952d-6b65bd659021</a></p><p>With regard to stocks of medicines on UK soil owned and held by suppliers themselves, commercially sensitive information has been shared confidentially with the Department by suppliers of medicines to the UK, to support various contingency programmes. For this reason, we cannot share information received from suppliers, including on their UK stock levels, with third parties.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 90068 90069 90070 90071 90072 90073 90074 90075 90076 90078 90079 90080 90081 90083 question first answered 23/09/2020 12:14:21 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1234557

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Amoxicillin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the size of the stockpiles of amoxicillin that are available for prescription or purchase in the UK as of 15 September 2020.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	90078
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2020 answer text <p>Our priority is to ensure that patients continue to have access to medicines and medical products they need. We are working closely with industry, the National Health Service and others in the supply chain to ensure that precautions are in place to reduce the likelihood of future shortages</p><p>The Government continues to hold stockpiles of medicines, including many of those medicines raised in the Rt. hon. Member’s questions, to cope with a range of scenarios, and robust contingency planning continues to ensure that the country is prepared for a possible second peak of COVID-19 infections and the end of the Transition period.</p><p>The Essential Medicines Buffer Stock (EMBS) supports the NHS in the event of a pandemic or other health emergency by ensuring the continued availability of medicines that are in routine use within the NHS in the event that the supply chain is interrupted. Volumes of the medicines listed in the EBMS for the requested dates are shown in the following table. The original EMBS contracts ended in October 2019 and the current ones expire on 31 March 2021.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Volumes in EMBS (packs/singles)</p></td><td><p>Prior to 31 October 2019</p></td><td><p>On 15 September 2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p>2,965,503</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>4,942,506</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg-Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_125mg suppository 10 pack</p></td><td><p>3,578</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_120mg/5ml liquid 100ml single</p></td><td><p>340,062</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_250mg/5ml_liquid 100ml single</p></td><td><p>201,159</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>salbutamol_2mg/ml 2.5ml_nebules 20 pack</p></td><td><p>246,246</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Salbutamol_100mcg x 200 dose_MDI single inhalers</p></td><td><p>3,956,254</p></td><td><p>2,600,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ibuprofen_100mg/5ml_liquid 100ml-150ml-500ml (volume in 100ml) singles</p></td><td><p>230,400</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ibuprofren_400mg_Caps/Tabs 84 pack</p></td><td><p>591,883</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>234,925</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>234,925</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_250mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>235,874</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_500mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>1,714,429</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>313,234</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amoxicillin_250mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>157,249</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amoxicillin_500mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>489,837</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In preparation for a potential imminent second wave of COVID-19 and to protect the security of the supply of critical life-saving medicines and patient health across the United Kingdom, a clinically-led assessment of medicines that should be stockpiled was undertaken in May and June 2020 and this was fed into a tender exercise that ran from 24 July to 10 August 2020.</p><p>Paracetamol and insulin are amongst the medicines that were identified and tendered for as part of this exercise and we will shortly be awarding contracts to secure supplies of these medicines for the autumn and winter. Details of the tender exercise can be found at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:355937-2020:HTML:EN:HTML&amp;tabId=1&amp;tabLang=en#id4-VI" target="_blank">https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:355937-2020:HTML:EN:HTML&amp;tabId=1&amp;tabLang=en#id4-VI</a></p><p><a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b8bf439c-76d1-4fa6-952d-6b65bd659021" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b8bf439c-76d1-4fa6-952d-6b65bd659021</a></p><p>With regard to stocks of medicines on UK soil owned and held by suppliers themselves, commercially sensitive information has been shared confidentially with the Department by suppliers of medicines to the UK, to support various contingency programmes. For this reason, we cannot share information received from suppliers, including on their UK stock levels, with third parties.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 90068 90069 90070 90071 90072 90073 90074 90075 90076 90077 90079 90080 90081 90083 question first answered 23/09/2020 12:14:21 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1234558

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Amoxicillin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Government last made an assessment of any stockpiling of amoxicillin that will need to be undertaken in preparation for (a) a second wave of the covid-19 pandemic, and (b) the end of the transition period; and if he will publish that assessment.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	90079
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2020 answer text <p>Our priority is to ensure that patients continue to have access to medicines and medical products they need. We are working closely with industry, the National Health Service and others in the supply chain to ensure that precautions are in place to reduce the likelihood of future shortages</p><p>The Government continues to hold stockpiles of medicines, including many of those medicines raised in the Rt. hon. Member’s questions, to cope with a range of scenarios, and robust contingency planning continues to ensure that the country is prepared for a possible second peak of COVID-19 infections and the end of the Transition period.</p><p>The Essential Medicines Buffer Stock (EMBS) supports the NHS in the event of a pandemic or other health emergency by ensuring the continued availability of medicines that are in routine use within the NHS in the event that the supply chain is interrupted. Volumes of the medicines listed in the EBMS for the requested dates are shown in the following table. The original EMBS contracts ended in October 2019 and the current ones expire on 31 March 2021.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Volumes in EMBS (packs/singles)</p></td><td><p>Prior to 31 October 2019</p></td><td><p>On 15 September 2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p>2,965,503</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>4,942,506</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg-Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_125mg suppository 10 pack</p></td><td><p>3,578</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_120mg/5ml liquid 100ml single</p></td><td><p>340,062</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_250mg/5ml_liquid 100ml single</p></td><td><p>201,159</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>salbutamol_2mg/ml 2.5ml_nebules 20 pack</p></td><td><p>246,246</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Salbutamol_100mcg x 200 dose_MDI single inhalers</p></td><td><p>3,956,254</p></td><td><p>2,600,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ibuprofen_100mg/5ml_liquid 100ml-150ml-500ml (volume in 100ml) singles</p></td><td><p>230,400</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ibuprofren_400mg_Caps/Tabs 84 pack</p></td><td><p>591,883</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>234,925</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>234,925</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_250mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>235,874</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_500mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>1,714,429</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>313,234</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amoxicillin_250mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>157,249</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amoxicillin_500mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>489,837</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In preparation for a potential imminent second wave of COVID-19 and to protect the security of the supply of critical life-saving medicines and patient health across the United Kingdom, a clinically-led assessment of medicines that should be stockpiled was undertaken in May and June 2020 and this was fed into a tender exercise that ran from 24 July to 10 August 2020.</p><p>Paracetamol and insulin are amongst the medicines that were identified and tendered for as part of this exercise and we will shortly be awarding contracts to secure supplies of these medicines for the autumn and winter. Details of the tender exercise can be found at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:355937-2020:HTML:EN:HTML&amp;tabId=1&amp;tabLang=en#id4-VI" target="_blank">https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:355937-2020:HTML:EN:HTML&amp;tabId=1&amp;tabLang=en#id4-VI</a></p><p><a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b8bf439c-76d1-4fa6-952d-6b65bd659021" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b8bf439c-76d1-4fa6-952d-6b65bd659021</a></p><p>With regard to stocks of medicines on UK soil owned and held by suppliers themselves, commercially sensitive information has been shared confidentially with the Department by suppliers of medicines to the UK, to support various contingency programmes. For this reason, we cannot share information received from suppliers, including on their UK stock levels, with third parties.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 90068 90069 90070 90071 90072 90073 90074 90075 90076 90077 90078 90080 90081 90083 question first answered 23/09/2020 12:14:21 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1234559

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Insulin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he can provide of the size of the stockpiles of insulin including all types and analogues of insulin and combinations including insulin mentioned in the Government’s list of medicines that cannot be exported from the UK or hoarded that were available for prescription or purchase in the UK prior to 31 October 2019.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	90080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2020 answer text <p>Our priority is to ensure that patients continue to have access to medicines and medical products they need. We are working closely with industry, the National Health Service and others in the supply chain to ensure that precautions are in place to reduce the likelihood of future shortages</p><p>The Government continues to hold stockpiles of medicines, including many of those medicines raised in the Rt. hon. Member’s questions, to cope with a range of scenarios, and robust contingency planning continues to ensure that the country is prepared for a possible second peak of COVID-19 infections and the end of the Transition period.</p><p>The Essential Medicines Buffer Stock (EMBS) supports the NHS in the event of a pandemic or other health emergency by ensuring the continued availability of medicines that are in routine use within the NHS in the event that the supply chain is interrupted. Volumes of the medicines listed in the EBMS for the requested dates are shown in the following table. The original EMBS contracts ended in October 2019 and the current ones expire on 31 March 2021.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Volumes in EMBS (packs/singles)</p></td><td><p>Prior to 31 October 2019</p></td><td><p>On 15 September 2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p>2,965,503</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>4,942,506</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg-Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_125mg suppository 10 pack</p></td><td><p>3,578</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_120mg/5ml liquid 100ml single</p></td><td><p>340,062</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_250mg/5ml_liquid 100ml single</p></td><td><p>201,159</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>salbutamol_2mg/ml 2.5ml_nebules 20 pack</p></td><td><p>246,246</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Salbutamol_100mcg x 200 dose_MDI single inhalers</p></td><td><p>3,956,254</p></td><td><p>2,600,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ibuprofen_100mg/5ml_liquid 100ml-150ml-500ml (volume in 100ml) singles</p></td><td><p>230,400</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ibuprofren_400mg_Caps/Tabs 84 pack</p></td><td><p>591,883</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>234,925</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>234,925</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_250mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>235,874</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_500mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>1,714,429</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>313,234</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amoxicillin_250mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>157,249</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amoxicillin_500mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>489,837</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In preparation for a potential imminent second wave of COVID-19 and to protect the security of the supply of critical life-saving medicines and patient health across the United Kingdom, a clinically-led assessment of medicines that should be stockpiled was undertaken in May and June 2020 and this was fed into a tender exercise that ran from 24 July to 10 August 2020.</p><p>Paracetamol and insulin are amongst the medicines that were identified and tendered for as part of this exercise and we will shortly be awarding contracts to secure supplies of these medicines for the autumn and winter. Details of the tender exercise can be found at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:355937-2020:HTML:EN:HTML&amp;tabId=1&amp;tabLang=en#id4-VI" target="_blank">https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:355937-2020:HTML:EN:HTML&amp;tabId=1&amp;tabLang=en#id4-VI</a></p><p><a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b8bf439c-76d1-4fa6-952d-6b65bd659021" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b8bf439c-76d1-4fa6-952d-6b65bd659021</a></p><p>With regard to stocks of medicines on UK soil owned and held by suppliers themselves, commercially sensitive information has been shared confidentially with the Department by suppliers of medicines to the UK, to support various contingency programmes. For this reason, we cannot share information received from suppliers, including on their UK stock levels, with third parties.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 90068 90069 90070 90071 90072 90073 90074 90075 90076 90077 90078 90079 90081 90083 question first answered 23/09/2020 12:14:21 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1234560

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Insulin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the size of the stockpiles of insulin including all types and analogues of insulin and combinations including insulin mentioned in the government’s ‘list of medicines that cannot be exported from the UK or hoarded’) that are available for prescription or purchase in the UK as of 15 September 2020.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	90081
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2020 answer text <p>Our priority is to ensure that patients continue to have access to medicines and medical products they need. We are working closely with industry, the National Health Service and others in the supply chain to ensure that precautions are in place to reduce the likelihood of future shortages</p><p>The Government continues to hold stockpiles of medicines, including many of those medicines raised in the Rt. hon. Member’s questions, to cope with a range of scenarios, and robust contingency planning continues to ensure that the country is prepared for a possible second peak of COVID-19 infections and the end of the Transition period.</p><p>The Essential Medicines Buffer Stock (EMBS) supports the NHS in the event of a pandemic or other health emergency by ensuring the continued availability of medicines that are in routine use within the NHS in the event that the supply chain is interrupted. Volumes of the medicines listed in the EBMS for the requested dates are shown in the following table. The original EMBS contracts ended in October 2019 and the current ones expire on 31 March 2021.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Volumes in EMBS (packs/singles)</p></td><td><p>Prior to 31 October 2019</p></td><td><p>On 15 September 2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p>2,965,503</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>4,942,506</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg-Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_125mg suppository 10 pack</p></td><td><p>3,578</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_120mg/5ml liquid 100ml single</p></td><td><p>340,062</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_250mg/5ml_liquid 100ml single</p></td><td><p>201,159</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>salbutamol_2mg/ml 2.5ml_nebules 20 pack</p></td><td><p>246,246</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Salbutamol_100mcg x 200 dose_MDI single inhalers</p></td><td><p>3,956,254</p></td><td><p>2,600,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ibuprofen_100mg/5ml_liquid 100ml-150ml-500ml (volume in 100ml) singles</p></td><td><p>230,400</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ibuprofren_400mg_Caps/Tabs 84 pack</p></td><td><p>591,883</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>234,925</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>234,925</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_250mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>235,874</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_500mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>1,714,429</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>313,234</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amoxicillin_250mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>157,249</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amoxicillin_500mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>489,837</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In preparation for a potential imminent second wave of COVID-19 and to protect the security of the supply of critical life-saving medicines and patient health across the United Kingdom, a clinically-led assessment of medicines that should be stockpiled was undertaken in May and June 2020 and this was fed into a tender exercise that ran from 24 July to 10 August 2020.</p><p>Paracetamol and insulin are amongst the medicines that were identified and tendered for as part of this exercise and we will shortly be awarding contracts to secure supplies of these medicines for the autumn and winter. Details of the tender exercise can be found at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:355937-2020:HTML:EN:HTML&amp;tabId=1&amp;tabLang=en#id4-VI" target="_blank">https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:355937-2020:HTML:EN:HTML&amp;tabId=1&amp;tabLang=en#id4-VI</a></p><p><a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b8bf439c-76d1-4fa6-952d-6b65bd659021" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b8bf439c-76d1-4fa6-952d-6b65bd659021</a></p><p>With regard to stocks of medicines on UK soil owned and held by suppliers themselves, commercially sensitive information has been shared confidentially with the Department by suppliers of medicines to the UK, to support various contingency programmes. For this reason, we cannot share information received from suppliers, including on their UK stock levels, with third parties.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 90068 90069 90070 90071 90072 90073 90074 90075 90076 90077 90078 90079 90080 90083 question first answered 23/09/2020 12:14:22 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1234596

registered interest
date	15/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Insulin
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the Government last made an assessment of stockpiling of insulin including all types and analogues of insulin and combinations including insulin mentioned in the Government’s list of medicines that cannot be exported from the UK or hoarded, that will need to be undertaken in preparation for (a) a second wave of the covid-19 pandemic; and (b) the end of the transition period, and if he will publish that assessment.
tabling member constituency	Islington South and Finsbury
tabling member printed	Emily Thornberry
uin	90083
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2020 answer text <p>Our priority is to ensure that patients continue to have access to medicines and medical products they need. We are working closely with industry, the National Health Service and others in the supply chain to ensure that precautions are in place to reduce the likelihood of future shortages</p><p>The Government continues to hold stockpiles of medicines, including many of those medicines raised in the Rt. hon. Member’s questions, to cope with a range of scenarios, and robust contingency planning continues to ensure that the country is prepared for a possible second peak of COVID-19 infections and the end of the Transition period.</p><p>The Essential Medicines Buffer Stock (EMBS) supports the NHS in the event of a pandemic or other health emergency by ensuring the continued availability of medicines that are in routine use within the NHS in the event that the supply chain is interrupted. Volumes of the medicines listed in the EBMS for the requested dates are shown in the following table. The original EMBS contracts ended in October 2019 and the current ones expire on 31 March 2021.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Volumes in EMBS (packs/singles)</p></td><td><p>Prior to 31 October 2019</p></td><td><p>On 15 September 2020</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p>2,965,503</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>4,942,506</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg-Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_125mg suppository 10 pack</p></td><td><p>3,578</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_120mg/5ml liquid 100ml single</p></td><td><p>340,062</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_250mg/5ml_liquid 100ml single</p></td><td><p>201,159</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>paracetamol_500mg_Caps/Tabs 100 pack</p></td><td><p>706,072</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>salbutamol_2mg/ml 2.5ml_nebules 20 pack</p></td><td><p>246,246</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Salbutamol_100mcg x 200 dose_MDI single inhalers</p></td><td><p>3,956,254</p></td><td><p>2,600,000</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ibuprofen_100mg/5ml_liquid 100ml-150ml-500ml (volume in 100ml) singles</p></td><td><p>230,400</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>ibuprofren_400mg_Caps/Tabs 84 pack</p></td><td><p>591,883</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>234,925</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>234,925</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_250mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>235,874</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_500mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>1,714,429</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>amoxicillin_125mg/5ml_liquid 100ml singles</p></td><td><p>313,234</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amoxicillin_250mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>157,249</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Amoxicillin_500mg_Caps/Tabs 21 pack</p></td><td><p>489,837</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>In preparation for a potential imminent second wave of COVID-19 and to protect the security of the supply of critical life-saving medicines and patient health across the United Kingdom, a clinically-led assessment of medicines that should be stockpiled was undertaken in May and June 2020 and this was fed into a tender exercise that ran from 24 July to 10 August 2020.</p><p>Paracetamol and insulin are amongst the medicines that were identified and tendered for as part of this exercise and we will shortly be awarding contracts to secure supplies of these medicines for the autumn and winter. Details of the tender exercise can be found at the following links:</p><p><a href="https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:355937-2020:HTML:EN:HTML&amp;tabId=1&amp;tabLang=en#id4-VI" target="_blank">https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:355937-2020:HTML:EN:HTML&amp;tabId=1&amp;tabLang=en#id4-VI</a></p><p><a href="https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b8bf439c-76d1-4fa6-952d-6b65bd659021" target="_blank">https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b8bf439c-76d1-4fa6-952d-6b65bd659021</a></p><p>With regard to stocks of medicines on UK soil owned and held by suppliers themselves, commercially sensitive information has been shared confidentially with the Department by suppliers of medicines to the UK, to support various contingency programmes. For this reason, we cannot share information received from suppliers, including on their UK stock levels, with third parties.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill grouped question UIN 90068 90069 90070 90071 90072 90073 90074 90075 90076 90077 90078 90079 90080 90081 question first answered 23/09/2020 12:14:22 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	1536 label Biography information for Emily Thornberry

1233666

registered interest
date	11/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Hormone Replacement Therapy
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the cause of the national shortage of Hormone Replacement Therapy products in the UK; and what steps he is taking to prevent a further shortage of the products.
tabling member constituency	Rotherham
tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
uin	88876
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2020 answer text <p>The Department is aware of supply issues that have affected some hormone replacement therapy (HRT) preparations for various reasons including regulatory or manufacturing issues and commercial decisions made by some companies to divest some products. While a limited number of HRT products are currently affected, most HRT products including alternatives to those experiencing supply issues are currently available.</p><p>We have been working closely with all suppliers of HRT medicines to maintain overall access to patients and have provided regular updates about these issues and management advice to the National Health Service. The overall situation has been improving since the end of February 2020 and will continue to improve in the coming months.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 23/09/2020 12:27:07 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion

1230583

registered interest
date	02/09/2020
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Influenza: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many flu vaccines (a) were administered to patients in 2019-20 and (b) he estimates will be required for winter 2020-21.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	84149
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/09/2020 answer text <p>In 2019/20, 15.3 million people received the flu vaccination. This included those aged 65 and older, those in at risk groups, pregnant women, children aged two – three years, children in reception – school year six and healthcare workers.</p><p>In 2020/21 we expect to offer more than 30 million vaccines.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 23/09/2020 12:48:14 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill previous answer version 45043 answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg