Nuffield Trust report on medicine availability under the NI Protocol

2 releases from 2 parties, 5 January 2023 to 6 January 2023.

Each party’s website press releases, in order of publication

1. Further confirmation that Protocol is disrupting medicine supplies

   • DUP
   • 5 January 2023
   • Response to an event
   • Criticises another northern ireland political party or its representatives

   DUP South Antrim MLA Pam Cameron describes a Nuffield Trust report on NI Protocol medicine supply as deeply alarming, claiming many medicines available in Great Britain are not in Northern Ireland and calling for the Protocol to be replaced.

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2. Problems being caused to medicines supply by Protocol “indefensible” – Beattie

   • UUP
   • 6 January 2023
   • Response to an event
   • Criticises the uk government or a uk minister

   UUP Leader Doug Beattie MC MLA says a Nuffield Trust report confirms Protocol effects on medicine availability in Northern Ireland, calls for medicines to be removed from the Protocol's scope, and urges the UK Government to track divergence and defend equal access.

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Parties with no matching press release found on their website

• Alliance: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (partly recovered), so a statement may have been missed.
• Sinn Féin: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• SDLP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• TUV: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• Green Party: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website.
• PBP: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (partly recovered), so a statement may have been missed.
• Aontú: no matching statement found on the party’s monitored website – coverage for this period is incomplete (partly recovered), so a statement may have been missed.

This does not show that a party said nothing: it may have commented elsewhere, in a release this system did not link to the issue, or in a release that has not been recovered.