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The Cabinet minister for the NHS is chartering a PLANE to airlift medical supplies in a No Deal Brexit.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock is understood to be behind the drastic plan for if the UK leaves the EU with no agreement.

It emerged just as the influential Public Accounts Committee slammed health chiefs for lacking a clear post-Brexit plan.

MPs said despite plans to stockpile six weeks' worth of medicines and smaller material like gloves, dressings and syringes which are imported from the EU, there could be other disruption to other equipment like X-ray machines.

It comes after ministers put 3,500 troops on standby in a dramatic escalation of multi-billion pound No Deal plans.

Mr Hancock warned months ago some supplies would need to be "flown in" if there is a chaotic exit from March 29.

Now it has emerged he has kicked the backup plan into action - chartering a plane in case needed.

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It is believed it would ferry short-shelf-life products, like isotopes for cancer treatment, between the West Midlands and the Netherlands if they cannot be procured another way.

Ironically it would fly out of Maastricht, the Dutch city whose name is now infamously associated with the early 1990s treaty that gave us closer ties with Europe and sparked the Tory Brexit civil war.

It would fly into either Coventry Airport or Birmingham Airport, HuffPost UK reported.

The plan has not been publicly confirmed but a source said the details were correct.

Before the plan emerged, Mr Hancock told BBC Newsnight: "We've instituted full no deal planning within the NHS and within the Department [of Health] already.

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"And I would like to see the whole of government going into that position because it's the responsible thing to do."

Yesterday the Cabinet agreed to ramp up No Deal plans with another £2billion investment.

All 106 'technical notices' giving practical advice to firms have been activated.

A 100-page information pack telling businesses of possible changes to the way they trade with EU states will go live online on Friday.

And 80,000 e-mails are going out to firms thought likely to be most affected.

The plan will be seen by Brexiteers as scare tactics in a bid to persuade MPs to back Theresa May's Brexit deal.

The Commons is due to vote on the controversial pact with the EU in the week of January 14 - and Tory chiefs are desperately trying to persuade MPs to change their minds and back it.