HC Deb 28 March 2000 vol 347 c119W
19. Ms Keeble

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the Government's plans to improve adoption procedures. [115166]

Mr. Hutton

My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has announced that he is to conduct a review of adoption with ministerial colleagues. The review will consider how best to develop a modern adoption system which puts the interests of the child first and provides a sensitive and efficient service, building on the Government's Quality Protects programme for transforming children's services.