§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether any evaluation of health education techniques is taking place in his Department; and whether he is proposing any new initiatives as a result of his evaluation of the Central Policy Review Staff report on alcoholism.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergThe new director general of the Health Education Council has said that he will place special emphasis on the evaluation of the council's programmes of work, and to this end he has commissioned a report on the cost-effectiveness of the health education effort overall. The Department will of course monitor these developments.
The Central Policy Review Staff report is one of the sources of advice to Ministers taken into account in the development of policies related to alcohol misuse and in the preparation of the Department's discussion document, "Drinking Sensibly."