To ask the Secretary of State for Health what beacon electronic health record sites were established under her Department’s Information for Health: an information strategy for the modern NHS 1998 to 2005, published in September 1998; and if she will make a statement. (74064)

I refer the hon. Member to the reply given on 16 May 2006, Official Report, columns 940-1W, to the hon. Member for Northavon (Steve Webb). Beacon sites were those piloted under the electronic records demonstrator and implementation programme.