To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the Answer of 12 June 2006, Official Report, column 1016W, on the Merton and Sutton Better Healthcare Closer to Home Programme, on what date she expects to publish her response to the local national health service. (78803)

[holding answer 19 June 2006]: As stated previously, the Department has received the response from the local national health service and is currently considering the situation. This is a complex issue and it is therefore difficult to predict when the Department will be in a position to publish a response.