Ventilators: Imports

(asked on 19th May 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 11 May 2020 to Question 37400 on Ventilators: Imports, who the members of the Joint Action Coordination Team are; and if he will publish the minutes of the meetings of that team.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 3rd June 2020

The Joint Assistance Coordination Team was established as a partnership between the Department for International Trade and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, working closely with the Department of Health and Social Care and the National Health Service to coordinate and facilitate the activity of sourcing medical equipment from overseas on behalf of the NHS.

It has been the practice of successive administrations that the Government does not disclose details of internal meetings, and it is not common practice to disclose the names of officials.

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