Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to respond to Questions 43048 and 43049 tabled by the hon. member for Central Ayrshire on 4 May 2020.

I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to Question 43048 on 16 June.

We take parliamentary scrutiny incredibly seriously and it is fundamentally important that hon. Members are provided with accurate and timely information to enable them to hold the Government to account. We are working rapidly to provide all Members with accurate answers to their questions, as well as supporting the Government’s response to the unprecedented challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The hon. Member’s Question 43049 will be answered as soon as possible.