Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many members of the House of Lords hold (a) paid and (b) unpaid roles within (i) his Department and (ii) his Department's agencies.

The following members of the House of Lords currently hold paid public appointments with the Department’s arm’s length bodies:

- Lord Adebowale, as Non-Executive Director of NHS England;

- Lord Carter, as Non-Executive Director of NHS Improvement;

- Lord Darzi, as Non-Executive Director of NHS Improvement;

- Baroness Harding, as Chair of NHS Improvement;

- Lord Oates, as Non-Executive Director of NHS Blood and Transplant; and

- Lord Ribeiro, as Chair of the Independent Reconfiguration Panel.

Public appointments are managed in accordance with the Governance Code on Public Appointments.

The following members of the House of Lords also hold paid roles:

- Lord Bishop of Norwich, as Chair of the Paterson Inquiry;

- Lord Carter, as Chair of the NHS Procurement and Efficiency Board;

- Baroness Cumberlege, as Chair of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review;

- Baroness Finlay, as Chair of the National Mental Capacity Act Forum (joint role between the Department of Health and Social Care and Ministry of Justice);

- Baroness Neuberger, as Vice Chair of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act; and

- Lord Patel, as Chair of Social Work England (joint role between the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department for Education).

Lord Darzi holds an unpaid role as Chair of the Accelerated Access Collaborative and Baroness Lane-Fox holds an unpaid role as one of the independent experts invited by the Government to provide advice and support engagement in advance of the green paper on social care.

No members of the House of Lords currently hold roles with the Department’s Executive Agencies, Public Health England and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.

Lord O’Shaughnessy is Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health.