HC Deb 03 March 2003 vol 400 c874W
Tim Loughton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will place in the Library the representations from(a) the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and (b) the RNIB on age-related macular degeneration. [97859]

Mr. Lammy

Letters received from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists and the Royal National Institute for the Blind in relation to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence's appraisal of photodynamic therapy have been placed in the Library. I am grateful to these organisations for their agreement to release the letters.

NICE do not release to a third party any documents received by it from consultees, including submissions, correspondence, responses to formal consultation and statement of appeal against the Final Appraisal Determination, before the completion of its appraisal.