Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his departmental IT systems routinely allow officials, advisers and Ministers to access private email accounts from their office desktop computers, department-issue laptop computers and mobile phone devices.

Devices issued by the Department, including laptops, mobile phones and tablets, allow users to access online services including web mail, subject to Departmental and cross-Government policies relating to the acceptable use of IT.