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£3m for no-deal Brexit measures to transport medicines
The Department of Health and Social Care wants to hire an ‘express freight service’ to transport medicines, blood and transplant tissue as part of wider plans to spend £3 million on no-deal Brexit measures.
The government's current plan is to leave the EU on 31 October, with or without a trade deal, making the 1 September deadline rather tight. Experts, including Andrew Dean, director of public law at Clifford Chance, have said that there was sufficient time to run a compliant and robust procurement process, but it would be tricky, given the relatively short timeframe.
Cabinet Office Minister David Lidington told Parliament described the ‘express freight contingency arrangement’ as ‘an urgent contingency measure for products requiring urgent delivery, within a 24-48 hour timeframe, if the UK leaves the EU without a deal’.
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