Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which health bodies from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland were involved in Exercise Pegasus.

Exercise PEGASUS, the largest simulation of a pandemic in the United Kingdom’s history, involved all four nations and thousands of participants across different parts of the exercise. Participants that are health bodies included, but were not limited to:

• the Department of Health and Social Care;
• the Welsh Government, via the Health, Social Care and Early Years Group;
• the Scottish Government, via the Directorate General, Health and Social Care;
• Northern Ireland’s Department of Health;
• the UK Health Security Agency;
• Public Health Wales;
• Public Health Scotland;
• the Northern Ireland Public Health Agency;
• NHS England, including all seven regions;
• NHS Supply Chain;
• NHS Wales, including the Performance and Improvement, and Shared Servies Partnership;
• NHS Scotland, including all 14 territorial health boards;
• NHS Blood and Transplant;
• the Scottish Ambulance Service;
• Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection Scotland;
• the Office for Life Sciences;
• the Food Standards Agency;
• the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency;
• the Health Research Authority;
• the Health and Safety Executive; and
• the Care Quality Commission.