Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many times and on which dates (a) Ministers and (b) officials of his Department have met with representatives of the British Specialist Nutrition Association.

Our records indicate that from January 2016 to January 2017, Ministers had no meetings with the British Specialist Nutrition Association (BSNA).

In the same period, officials had five meetings with the BSNA on the following dates:

- 12 January 2017;

- 10 November 2016;

- 16 May 2016;

- 29 April 2016; and

- 18 February 2016.