To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish in the Official Report a list of the titles, together with a note summarising their purpose, of the reports which his Department receives on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis from both district and general health authorities.

[holding answer 14 November 1990]: The Department receives around 100 different regular statistical returns from district and regional health authorities, mostly at the district level. A list of the statistical and financial returns required for 1987–88 and 1988–89 is available in the Library. I will arrange for an updated list for 1989–90 to be placed in the Library shortly.