Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Return to an Address of the Honourable the House of Commons dated 17 November 2021 for specified minutes, notes, and correspondence relating to Government contracts awarded to Randox Laboratories Ltd, HC1072, laid before the House on 3 February 2022, Ref 24, page 46, whether his Department holds any other records relating to the attempted removal of extraction systems by Randox Laboratories Limited from Queen’s and Ulster Universities and the AFBI Lab; and what steps he took in response.

The Department does not hold further records relating to this matter. There is no record of any further steps taken by the former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (the Rt. hon. Matt Hancock MP).