Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he or other Ministers of his Department have visited a liver unit since taking office.

Since May 2010 the following visits were undertaken by Ministers in the Department to liver units.

23 November 2010 Anne Milton King's College Hospital

Tour of our Haematology and Liver Transplantation

departments

13 January 2011 Mr Andrew Lansley King's College Hospital NHS

Foundation Trust

Tour of Liver Intensive Therapy Unit (LITU) on Cheyne Wing

Since May 2010, the following visits were undertaken by Ministers in the Department to alcohol dependency units that also specialise in liver treatment.

16 December 2010 Anne Milton Hope House in Clapham

(Drugs/alcohol dependency)

21 July 2011 Earl Howe Royal Bolton Hospital

(Alcohol dependency)

1 March 2012 Mr Andrew Lansley The Carpenters Arms

(Rehabilitation charity for alcohol and drugs)

25 October 2012 Anna Soubry Bristol Tranquiliser Project

(Drugs/alcohol dependency)

29 March 2012 Earl Howe Mossley Hill Hospital

(Alcohol dependency treatment centre)

24 January 2013 Anna Soubry Mount Carmel (charity)

(Alcohol Treatment Centre)

6 June 2013 Dr Daniel Poulter Brighton Housing Trust

(Meeting Community Alcohol NHS Team)

13 February 2014 Dr Daniel Poulter The Habour centre, Alcohol and drug service, Plymouth