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registered interest
date	08/12/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Meetings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department’s Information Risk Management and Assurance Directorate take steps to internally distribute and publicise guidance on (a) minute taking during Ministerial meetings and (b) requirements for officials to be present during Ministerial meetings.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	89629
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/03/2022 answer text <p>The creation and distribution of guidance on minute taking and the requirement for officials to be present is not within the remit of the Information Risk Management and Assurance Directorate.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 22/03/2022 12:56:20 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 38808 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1381309

registered interest
date	23/11/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Meetings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department takes to ensure that at least one official from his Department is present during all (a) meetings and (b) phone calls relating to Government business between Ministers and third parties.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	80393
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2021 answer text <p>The Department operates in line with the Ministerial Code which states at 8.14 that “a private secretary or official should be present for all discussions relating to Government business. If a Minister meets an external organisation or individual and finds themselves discussing official business without an official present… any significant content should be fed back to the department as soon as possible”.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/12/2021 10:40:02 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 35160 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1379450

registered interest
date	17/11/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Meetings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his Department’s process is for (a) recording and (b) keeping minutes of all meetings relating to Government business.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	76754
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/12/2021 answer text <p>Formal, structured meetings are usually minuted. Guidance is available to help officials meet their obligation under the Civil Service Code to ‘keep accurate official records’, which includes making records of decisions and actions that take place in meetings.</p><p>Specific procedures are in place for external meetings involving ministers in ‘Guidance on the management of Private Office Papers’, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/popapersguidance2009.pdf" target="_blank">https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/popapersguidance2009.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 23/12/2021 10:43:40 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar previous answer version 33902 answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson

1287264

registered interest
date	19/02/2021
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Meetings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many meetings (a) he, (b) his Ministers and (c) his officials have had with (i) Professor Robert Dingwall, (ii) Professor Carl Heneghan, (iii) Professor Anthony Brookes and (iv) Professor Hugh Pennington in each of the last 12 months.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	154885
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2021 answer text <p>The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Innovation (Lord Bethell) joined meeting 13 of the Moral and Ethical Advisory Group via teleconference on 10 June 2020 at which Professor Robert Dingwall was also present.</p><p>The Chief Medical Officer attended a roundtable meeting of scientists, chaired by the Prime Minister on 20 September 2020, at which Professor Carl Heneghan was present.</p> answering member constituency Charnwood answering member printed Edward Argar question first answered 26/02/2021 16:54:38 answering member 4362 label Biography information for Edward Argar
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

1015547

registered interest
date	27/11/2018
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Department of Health and Social Care: Meetings
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant of his Answer to Question 127566 if he will (a) publish the names of the representatives from (i) Mars, (ii) Coca Cola and (iii) the British Soft Drinks Association who met his Department on the specified dates, (b) place notes of those meetings in the Library and (c) publish any correspondence between 2017 and 2018 between these companies and his Department.
tabling member constituency	West Bromwich East
tabling member printed	Tom Watson
uin	196185
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2018 answer text <p>Details about the meetings with Mars, Coca Cola and the British Soft Drinks Association, including representatives attending from these organisations, are provided in the following table.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Organisation</p></td><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>Meeting type</p></td><td><p>External Attendees</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="6"><p>Mars</p></td><td><p>12 January 2017</p></td><td><p>1:1 meeting with Public Health England (PHE)</p></td><td><p>Communications Manager, Director Global Public Affairs, UK Public Affairs Manager, Scientific Affairs Manager Europe</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20 January 2017</p></td><td><p>Large PHE stakeholder forum meeting to discuss data in relation to the sugar reduction programme</p></td><td><p>Unknown</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>17 June 2017</p></td><td><p>Large PHE stakeholder forum meeting on drinks covered by PHE’s reformulation programme</p></td><td><p>UK Public Affairs Manager</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>22 September 2017</p></td><td><p>1:1 meeting with PHE</p></td><td><p>UK Public Affairs Manager</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 November 2017</p></td><td><p>Large PHE stakeholder forum meeting on drinks covered by PHE’s reformulation programme</p></td><td><p>UK Public Affairs Manager</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>20 December 2017</p></td><td><p>PHE meeting with Mars, Mondelez and Ferrero to discuss Treatwise initiative</p></td><td><p>UK Public Affairs Manager</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>Coca Cola</p></td><td><p>17 July 2017</p></td><td><p>Large PHE stakeholder forum meeting on drinks covered by PHE’s reformulation programme</p></td><td><p>Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9 January 2018</p></td><td><p>1:1 meeting with PHE</p></td><td><p>Chief Executive Officer and Director Public Affairs &amp; Communication</p></td></tr><tr><td rowspan="6"><p>British Soft Drinks Association (BSDA)</p></td><td><p>22 March 2017</p></td><td><p>1:1 with Department of Health (DH)</p></td><td><p>Director General</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>17 July 2017</p></td><td><p>Large PHE stakeholder forum meeting on drinks covered by PHE’s reformulation programme</p></td><td><p>Director General and Public Affairs Manager</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>27 July 2017</p></td><td><p>1:1 meeting with PHE</p></td><td><p>Public Affairs Manager</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>7 September 2017</p></td><td><p>1:1 with DH</p></td><td><p>Director General</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 November 2017</p></td><td><p>Large PHE stakeholder forum meeting on drinks covered by PHE’s reformulation programme</p></td><td><p>Technical Executive</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>18 January 2018</p></td><td><p>Introductory meeting with new Deputy Director of Obesity, Food and Nutrition Branch in DH</p></td><td><p>Director General and Public Affairs Manager</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The Department does not have a central record of notes of these meetings.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not have a centralised record of all correspondence with these organisations and to obtain it would incur disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 03/12/2018 17:09:46 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	1463 label Biography information for Lord Watson of Wyre Forest