To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 14 January 2008, Official Report, column 1007W, on the Department Board, if he will place in the Library copies of the (a) agenda and (b) minutes of the NHS Management Board meeting of 25 September 2007. (180850)

The National Health Service Management Board discusses sensitive operational and policy development issues. Releasing the minutes to the public domain would prejudice the free and frank discussion of those issues, so it is not the Board’s practice to release them.