§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the number of pamphlets entitled "The Health Service in England" which have been sent out by his Department in the last 12 months to community health councils and family practitioner committees in the West Midlands county; which specific ones received them; and what replies he has received in response to the information in them.
§ Mr. John PattenThirty thousand copies of the leaflet were sent by the Department on publication to the West Midlands health authority. Local distribution arrangements were left to the authority itself. To date, we have not received any response centrally.