Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of board meetings of NHS Shared Business Service he has attended in each of the last five years.
My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State is not a member of the board, and as such does not attend board meetings. The Department appoints board members and has recently increased its membership to the board of NHS Shared Business Services to provide oversight.