§ Mr. JackTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list his top three priority issues in respect of each of the sub-headings to each area of responsibility listed in respect of the list of ministerial responsibilities of each of his Department's Ministers. [9816]
§ Ms JowellThe list of ministerial responsibilities referred to is not a template for the priorities of the Department of Health. The broad scope of the Department means that each Minister has responsibility for particular areas of work, but priorities are set across the whole Department, and every Minister's areas of responsibility feed into them. For this reason, a list of issues categorised by the sub-headings in that list would not encapsulate our priorities.