Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the comments of the second permanent secretary in the departmental minutes of December 2020, what a sub approval is in connection with Government covid-19 contracts.

A reference to a ‘sub approval’ in this context is referring to Ministerial decisions which take into account advice from officials presented to them in the form of a written submission for approval.