Question to the Cabinet Office:
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what correspondence his Department has had with organisations on Healthcare Environmental Services in the last year.
There has been one face to face meeting between cross government officials and Healthcare Environmental Services held at the Cabinet Office. It is not appropriate to publish the minutes of that meeting. These were extremely sensitive discussions about managing a very difficult and pressing problem.
With respect to disclosure of correspondence, it would be entirely inappropriate to publish this for many reasons: