The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Innovation is a junior position in the Department of Health and Social Care in the British government. It is currently held by The 5th Baron Bethell, MP, who took the office on 9 March 2020.
Responsibilities
The minister is responsible for the following:
- COVID-19:
- supply (medicines and testing)
- treatments and vaccines
- long-term health impacts
- test and trace: testing, trace, technology
- life sciences
- medicines
- research
- health protection
- anti-microbial resistance
- Global Health Security
- international diplomacy and relations
- data and technology
- rare diseases
- NHS security management, including cyber security
- blood and transplants and organ donation
List of ministers
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