Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which departmental decisions have been subject to a ministerial direction in 2020.
Ministerial Directions are published on GOV.UK. A Ministerial Direction was published on 30 March 2020 which authorised spend on urgent COVID-19 issues by the Department and its arm’-length bodies. This can be found at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-ministerial-direction-on-spend