PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(9 July 2026)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in how many instances his Department has put mitigations for conflict of interest in place for (a) Ministers and (b) senior officials each year since 1 June 2024.

Asked by:
Lloyd Hatton (Labour)

There are established processes in place for the declaration and management of interests held by ministers and senior civil servants, which ensure that steps are taken to avoid a conflict of interest or manage the perception of a conflict.

Information about the ministers’ interests process can be found in the Ministerial Code, and the List of Ministers’ Interests is published quarterly, with further information on both available, respectively, at the following two links:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ministerial-code/ministerial-code

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/list-of-ministers-interests

Data on the specific number of individual mitigation measures put in place is held within confidential personnel records and localised casework logs. To extract and aggregate a precise historical count of individual mitigations across all senior officials since 1 June 2024 could only be achieved at disproportionate cost.

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