Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many meetings she had with her Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser between 1 December 2018 and 28 February 2019.
The Secretary of State had no meetings with the Department’s Chief Scientific Adviser between 1 December 2018 and 28 February 2019; however, she did meet the Chief Scientific Adviser on 27th November 2018 as one of her first meetings in the Department. Baroness Buscombe meets with the Chief Scientific Adviser on a regular basis in her role as Minister in Charge of Research and Trialling.