To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent representations he has received on the preventive properties against illness of hormone replacement therapy.

In recent months I have received representations and have also met and discussed hormone replacement therapy with my hon. Friend and the assistant medical director of the Amarant Trust. I have also met the voluntary organisation, Women's Health Concern. I also had a meeting about osteoporosis with the National Council of Women and affiliated organisations at which we discussed hormone replacement therapy.