Petitions

Mr. Andrew Turner
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many parliamentary petitions were referred to his Department in the last 12 months; and on how many were no government observations issued. [112862]

Mr. Lammy
[holding answer 13 May 2003]: Fifteen parliamentary petitions were referred to the Department of Health in the last 12 months. No government observations were provided for 10 of these.