Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many meetings he had held his Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser between October 2017 and December 2017.
For the period 1 October 2017 to 31 December 2017 my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health met with the Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) twice, the CSA met with other Health ministers on five occasions.
Throughout this period the Department of Health and Social Care’s CSA also acted as the Interim Government Chief Scientific Adviser and met with ministers from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and other Government Departments.