Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the investigation <i>General practice commissioning: in whose interests?</i> by <i>The Times</i> and the British Medical Journal, whether they have plans to require that the boards of Clinical Commissioning Groups cannot enter into contracts with companies in which one or more of their board members has a financial interest.

We do not have any such plans.

However, in all circumstances a clinical commissioning group must manage any actual or perceived conflicts in a way that is transparent, fair, and protects the integrity of their decision making.