Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the (a) subject, (b) date and (c) reason was for each Ministerial Direction he has issued since 1 February 2020.

Ministerial Directions are published on GOV.UK. A Ministerial Direction was published on 30 March 2020 which authorised spend on urgent COVID-19 issues by the Department and its arms’ length bodies. This is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-ministerial-direction-on-spend