Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the answer by Baroness Neville-Rolfe on 21 November (HL Deb, col 1725) concerning the UK EU Life Sciences Steering group, (1) who are the members of the group, (2) when it first met, (3) when further meetings are expected to take place, and (4) with which stakeholders the group have been engaging.

The Steering Group is chaired by the chief executives of GSK and AstraZeneca and includes the Wellcome Trust and a range of life sciences trade associations (the Association of British Healthcare Industries, Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, BioIndustry Association), representing both large and small UK life sciences companies across the various business areas that make up the sector. The Group’s first meeting was on 6 September and it met again on 23 November with further dates yet to be set. The Group has engaged widely with stakeholders across the UK life sciences sector on subjects including regulation, trade and investment and access to finance.