Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his correspondence of 28 February 2024 to Kath Sansom and Ruth MacLeod of the Sling the Mesh Group, if he will publish (a) the patient groups that contributed to, (b) the distribution lists used to inform (i) patient groups and (ii) stakeholders about and (c) a summary of the contributions of patient groups to the consultation.

The Government is in the process of drafting the response to the consultation on Disclosure of industry payments to the healthcare sector, which will be published in due course. As the consultation response is in policy development, the information requested is not available.