Written question asked by Sandra Gidley (Liberal Democrat) on Friday, 19 January 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 23 January 2007. It was answered by Ivan Lewis (Labour) on Tuesday, 6 March 2007 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Departmental Leaflets

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many information leaflets were produced by her Department in each of the last 10 years.

Answer: Between 1 October 2004 and 31 December 2006, the Department published 1,529 documents including information leaflets, command papers, guidance documentation and national health service staff bulletins.There is currently no mechanism for identifying which of these are specifically information leaflets and the Department has no central record for printed publications produced prior to 1 October 2004. To attempt to gather this information would incur disproportionate cost.

Secondary information