Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to the Channel 4 Dispatches programme of 28 October 2019, if she will publish the expenses incurred by her Department in relation to the meeting between officials in her Department and US pharmaceutical firms.

Departmental officials and Ministers regularly meet with businesses and stakeholders across a range of sectors in both the US and UK.

The government has been clear that the NHS is not, and never will be, for sale to the private sector, whether overseas or domestic‎. The government will continue to ensure that patients have access to the medicines they need, and that decisions on how to run public services are made by the UK government and the Devolved Administrations, not our trade partners.