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 his Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser between 1 January and 31 March 2018.

For the period 1 January to 31 March 2018 my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health met with the Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) twice, and the CSA met with other Ministers on nine occasions.

Throughout this period the Department of Health and Social Care’s CSA also acted as the Interim Government CSA and met with Ministers from, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and other Government Departments.