Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what outstanding Freedom of Information requests the Department is processing for documents relating to the meeting between the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Innovation and Randox on 9 April 2020; on what dates those requests were received; and when his Department plans to answer them.

The Department has eight outstanding cases relating to the meeting between the former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Innovation (Lord Bethell) and Randox on 9 April 2020. They were received on the following dates:

4 November 2020;

12 August 2021;

29 October 2021;

4 November 2021;

6 November 2021;

9 November 2021;

9 November 2021; and

18 November 2021.

These are being progressed and we aim to answer them as soon as possible.