Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will publish (a) the minutes of the phone call between the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Innovation and Oxford Nanopore on covid-19 testing on 4 April 2020 and (b) a list of which officials in his Department participated in the call.

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.