Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government on how many occasions, and when, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the Minister for Public Health have met the Chief Executive and Chair of the Food Standards Agency since 2015.
Since 2015, there have been no meetings between the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and the Chief Executive and Chair of the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
Since 2015, Ministers with portfolio responsibility for the FSA within their portfolio have met with the Chair or Chief Executive Officer on the following dates:
| Meeting with FSA Chair and Chief Executive Officer | Meeting with FSA Chair |
| 17 March 2015, 28 July 2015, 9 September 2015 (by telephone) | 3 December 2015 |
| 13 April 2016, 5 July 2016, 10 October 2016, 28 November 2016 | 12 January 2016 |
| None in 2017 | 1 March 2017 (by telephone), 6 March 2017, 16 March 2017, 24 October 2017 |
To date, there have been no meetings in 2018.