Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the roles to which (a) George Pascoe-Watson, (b) Lord Feldman and (c) Lord O'Shaughnessy were appointed to assist his Department with the response to the covid-19 outbreak were (i) consultancy or (ii) temporary civil service roles; and whether the (A) Civil Service Code and (B) Code of Conduct for Special Advisers applied to those appointees in those roles.

George Pascoe-Watson, Lord Feldman and Lord O’Shaughnessy were Ministerial advisors and the Civil Service Code applied to them in these roles.