Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether anyone has been appointed to take over the responsibilities that Dr Jenny Harries held, in terms of shielding and other policies to help the clinically extremely vulnerable in her previous position as deputy chief medical officer, following her appointment as chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency and head of NHS Test and Trace in April 2021.

Senior officials oversee the development and implementation of policy drawing on clinical expertise as required.