Departments: General Elections Dan Rogerson To ask the Secretary of State for Health what contingency preparations his Department made for the possibility of a general election in autumn 2007; and what the costs were of those preparations. Dawn Primarolo I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to him by the Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Edward Miliband) on 15 October 2007, Official Report, column 823W.