Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many meetings (a) he and (b) Ministers of his Department have had with the Chief Scientific Adviser in his Department in the last three months.

In the past three months my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health has had three formal meetings with the Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) for Health, Chris Whitty, and the CSA has had five meetings with other Health Ministers. As this period includes August when Parliament was in recess meetings between the CSA and Ministers have been less frequent than normal.