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 Minister for Covid Vaccine Deployment, the hon. Member for Winchester, and Sigma on 10 February 2021; who attended the meeting on behalf of (a) Sigma and (b) his Department; and in what capacity the hon. Member for Winchester was attending.

The former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for COVID Vaccine Deployment (the Rt Hon. Nadhim Zahawi MP) gave an address on 10 February 2021 for community pharmacists as part of the ‘Taking Pharmacy Forward’ live webinar. The event was hosted by Bharat Shah of Sigma Pharmaceuticals.

The hon. Member for Winchester (Steve Brine MP) facilitated the webinar which was also attended by Simon Dukes, Chief Executive of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee. The Department does not hold a record of the names of all attendees from the Department or Sigma, nor a minute of the webinar.