Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 December to Question 107082, for what reason he is concerned that the disclosure of the information requested in relation to his Department could affect Edenred’s commercial interests when sixteen other government departments who also use the Edenred contract to pay non-cash vouchers to their staff have disclosed the same information since 6 December 2022 with no such concerns arising.

Upon further consideration with Edenred, the Department has decided to disclose this information in line with other Government departments. The following tables shows the total value of non-cash vouchers awarded to staff working for the Department.