§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what estimate he has made of the cost of(a) collecting the data for and (b) publishing the clinical outcome indicators for the national health service in Scotland released in February 1996. [16710]
§ Lord James Douglas-HamiltonThere are no specific data collection costs attributable to the outcome indicators work. Routine returns are simply being examined in new ways. The cost of printing the report which is distributed free was approximately £3,000.