Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether George Pascoe-Watson participated in any (1) telephone call, (2) verbal discussion, (3) written communication, or (4) other meeting, during his time as an adviser to the Department of Health and Social Care which covered (a) policy, or (b) operational, information about plans (i) to put London into Tier 2 restrictions, and (ii) to introduce a national lockdown from 5 November, to address the COVID-19 pandemic; and if so, when any such communication took place.

George Pascoe-Watson provided communications and media support to National Health Service Test and Trace. He was not privy to discussions on the policy or operational plans around the introduction of Tier 2 restrictions in London or the subsequent national restrictions on 5 November.