Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department holds a minute of the meeting between the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Innovation, Lord Feldman and Abbott on the Abbott covid-19 test on 7 April 2020; whether (a) officials and (b) special advisers attended that meeting on behalf of his Department; and in what capacity Lord Feldman attended that meeting.

The Department of Health and Social Care has indicated that it will not be possible to answer this question within the usual time period. An answer is being prepared and will be provided as soon as it is available.