To ask the Secretary of State for Health which Minister in his Department has been assigned responsibility for overseeing the delivery of value for money in his Department; whether his Department has established a public sector reform team to implement service reforms; and if he will make a statement. (289739)

I am the Department of Health Minister with responsibility for overseeing the delivery of value for money. The Department has not created a new single public sector reform team because directorates within the Department lead on different elements of service reform.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent discussions he has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on whether funding presently allocated to his Department is to be re-allocated to the Department for Communities and Local Government to help implement the housing policies announced in the Draft Legislative Programme for 2009-10. (290487)

The Secretary of State for Health discussed the Department of Health’s contribution to the housing policies announced in the Draft Legislative Programme with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, as part of the process of publishing “Building Britain’s Future”.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the Prime Minister’s announcement of 29 June 2009 on provision of social housing, whether funds from underspends in his Department’s budget will be re-allocated to social housing initiatives. (291877)

I have been asked to reply.

I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave on 21 July 2009, Official Report, column 1352W.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the reasons are for the time taken to publish the national programme budgeting data for 2007-08. (291878)

I am told that the time taken to publish the 2007-08 programme budgeting data was due to a new data collection mechanism for both the reference cost data (which are used as part of the programme budgeting calculations) and the programme budgeting data. In addition, due to a change in the programme budgeting data collection methodology, additional validation work was undertaken to estimate expenditure levels per programme without methodological changes.