Petitions

HC Deb 15 May 2003 vol 405 cc423-4W

Mr. Andrew Turner

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many parliamentary petitions were referred to his Department in the last 12 months; and on how many were no government observations issued. [112862]

Mr. Lammy

[holding answer 13 May 2003]: Fifteen parliamentary petitions were referred to the Department of Health in the last 12 months. No government observations were provided for 10 of these.