§ The Prime Minister[holding answer 27 January 1997]: I have no plans to do so. The Under-Secretary of State for Health, my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford (Mr. Burns), has ministerial responsibility for children's services at the Department of Health. However, all Government Departments are aware of the need to consider children's interests and there are many mechanisms in place, both formal and informal, to ensure inter-departmental co-operation on children's issues. These arrangements work well, especially now they have been expanded by the forming of the children's services strategy group which brings together central and local government and the major voluntary organisations to look at key issues. This group is co-ordinated by the Department of Health.