Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what process his Department used to appoint members of the Aerosol Generating Procedures Panel; and how he has ensured that panel had appropriate expertise from all areas of clinical care.

Appointments to the panel are made on merit and in accordance with the principles of the Code of Practice for Scientific Advisory Committees. The panel draws on the expertise of scientists and healthcare professionals, including clinicians, microbiologists, virologists, infection prevention and control, public health and engineering.