§ Mr. SteenTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will ensure that her ministerial management information system for establishing objectives for her Department, includes deregulation objectives(a) for her and (b) for each of the Ministers within her Department. [15564]
§ Mr. SackvilleThe need to avoid unnecessary regulatory burdens on business and on others is identified as an objective in my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State's statement of aims, goals, priorities and key challenges for the Department of Health for 1994–95, and subsequent years, which was published on 18 April 1994 and placed in the Library. Each Minister has to pursue this objective in the policy areas for which he or she is responsible. There is also a Minister with particular responsibility for promoting deregulation in the Department.
§ Mr. SteenTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what targets she has for withdrawing regulations within her Department. [15545]
§ Mr. SackvilleI refer the hon. Member to the reply given by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Corporate Affairs today.