§ Mr. YeoTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the cost of producing the Modernisation Board annual report for 2004; how many copies have been printed; and how copies are being made available to NHS(a) employees and (b) patients. [178237]
§ Mr. HuttonThe estimated cost of writing, editing, design and publishing the NHS Modernisation Board annual report was £43,000. 6,000 copies of the report have been printed. 3,500 copies will be distributed within the NHS through the strategic health authorities and individual NHS trusts for staff and 2,500 copies have been made available for patients groups and individual patients. Staff and the general public can also download the full report through the Department's website.