Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) names and (b) qualifications of the members of the executive committee of the NHS Test and Trace programme are; whether those people are remunerated for the work that they do for that committee; what plans he has to publish the minutes of that committee; and if he will make a statement.

As of 10 February 2021, the Executive Committee of NHS Test and Trace comprises of 15 members and one clinician:

Baroness Dido Harding – Executive Chair;

David Pitt – Chief Operating Officer;

Mark Hewlett – Testing Divisional Director;

Steve McManus – Tracing Divisional Director;

Carolyn Wilkins – Contain Divisional Director;

Clare Gardiner – Director General of Joint Biosecurity Centre;

Simon Bolton – Chief Information Officer;

Gareth Williams – Chief People Officer;

Donald Shepard – Chief Finance Officer;

Ben Dyson – Director of Policy;

Susan Hopkins – Chief Medical Advisor;

Jacqui Rock – Chief Commercial Officer;

Ben Stimson – Chief Customer Officer;

Raghuv Bhasin – Chief of Staff;

Michael Brodie – Chief Executive of Public Health England.

We are unable to provide personal information on qualifications. Baroness Harding is not remunerated for her role as Executive Chair. All other members of the Executive Committee are either civil servants and as such are remunerated on their respective pay grade or on secondment from other public sector departments. The minutes of Executive Committee meetings will not be routinely published.