Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's submission to the Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health review and evidence submitted to the series of interviews with his Department's personnel conducted by researchers from the University of Leeds and published in 2008.

The Inter-departmental Group for the Valuation of Life and Health (IDGVLH) is a group of economists from different Government departments set up in December 2007 to consider technical issues relating to the valuation of impacts upon life and health risks. The Terms of Reference of the group included survey of approaches to the valuation of such risks and production of draft guidance for submission to HM Treasury. Although membership of the Group was sought from any department with an interest, membership is personal and not departmental. Hence the submissions to the IDGVLH and responses to the survey that it commissioned are those of the individual members as experts in this field and in the operational practice of their departments, and do not necessarily represent the views of their departments. Records of the interviews conducted by the University of Leeds (other than what is incorporated into the report itself) were not kept by the Department.