Northern Ireland’s First Minister has said a Covid vaccine producer raised concerns with her around the potential impact of the NI Protocol on the supply of medicines to the region from Great Britain.
There is a grace period of a year on checks on medicines moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland under the post-Brexit arrangements.
Arlene Foster said AstraZeneca raised the matter in a meeting with her on Friday.
The meeting came before the EU moved to place temporary export controls on any Covid-19 vaccines moving from the bloc into Northern Ireland.
The AstraZeneca Covid vaccine (Dominic Lipinski/PA)
January 18, 2021, 12:05 am
The industry in Scotland now exports £575m worth of manufactured goods, up from the £550m reported in 2017 (Julien Behal/PA)
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Employment and exports have continued to grow in Scotland’s pharmaceutical sector, according to a new report.
Figures from the University of Strathclyde’s Fraser of Allander Institute report suggest the industry is worth £1.8 billion, almost 6% higher than when the last major review took place in 2017.
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A Labour proposal to shake up the pharmaceutical industry would leave Britain struggling to develop its own coronavirus vaccines, science experts have warned.
The plan is revealed in a document titled Medicines For The Many unearthed by The Mail on Sunday – a 50-page policy dossier, unveiled at the 2019 Labour Party Conference, 12 weeks before the first Covid cases surfaced in China.
Present Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, deputy leader Angela Rayner and shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth embraced then-leader Jeremy Corbyn on stage to launch the proposals, which remain live on Labour’s website.
The plan has been slammed by scientific experts, charities and drugs manufacturers – who warn they would destroy the country’s vital pharmaceutical research sector.