Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:59 pm on 27 February 2023.
Baroness Hooper
Conservative
2:59,
27 February 2023
Does my noble friend not agree that it is not only a decline in the manufacture of medicines but a decline in the manufacture of medical devices that we see at present? As far as I can make out, most medical devices are imported from China. Will the Government consider looking at a market such as Costa Rica, a country which has as its largest export medical devices, as a friendly and democratic country that we could do business with?