To ask the Secretary of State for Health

(1) how many meetings of the Health Care Strategy Forum officials from his Department have attended;

(2) what representations on public policy his Department has received from the Health Care Strategy Forum.

We do not keep central records of which officials have attended external meetings and the information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. We have checked our main departmental correspondence database and can find no record of any correspondence from the Health Care Strategy Forum within the last 12 months. Any correspondence addressed to officials directly is not recorded centrally, and information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.