§ Helen JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 12 February 2004,Official Report, column 1695, on NHS trust documents, whether his Department collects and retains copies of (a) Mersey Regional Ambulance Service's lone worker policy and (b) the job description of its communications manager; and for what reason it has not obtained a copy of Ms Pearl Browne's report on the management of the Mersey Regional Ambulance Service. [157612]
§ Miss Melanie Johnson[holding answer 3 March 2004]: The Department does not routinely collect copies of Mersey Regional Ambulance Service's lone worker policy and the job description of its communications manager. The Pearl Brown report on the management of the Mersey Regional Ambulance Service is a confidential report commissioned solely by the trust and neither the Department nor the Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority had any input to it.