HC Deb 19 December 2003 vol 416 c193W
Chris Grayling

To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether his Department monitors the usage of healthy living centres. [144568]

Miss Melanie Johnson

The Department of Health has commissioned the Tavistock Institute to carry out an evaluation of the healthy living centre programme against key health priorities such as cancer and coronary heart disease prevention. The usage of healthy living centres is monitored by the New Opportunities Fund by absolute numbers as well as by gender, ethnicity and age.