To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his answer of 24 June 2003, Official Report, column 721W, on infectious patients, if he will publish the results of the risk assessments undertaken in 2000. [124553]

These risk assessments were not collected centrally. Chief executives in acute national health service trusts were required to:

undertake a risk assessment to determine appropriate provision of isolation facilities within the trust: and

agree the level and type of provision with the regional office.