Health Transition Risk Register

Karen Bradley Excerpts
Thursday 10th May 2012

(12 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Lansley Portrait Mr Lansley
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I know that I cannot ask the hon. Gentleman a question, but I wonder whether he has read the document I published on Tuesday about what is in the risk register. I bet he has not.

Karen Bradley Portrait Karen Bradley (Staffordshire Moorlands) (Con)
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Has the Secretary of State of State seen any previous risk registers, and does he think that their early publication may have affected the policy development of the previous Government?

Lord Lansley Portrait Mr Lansley
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I have seen many risk registers. Of course, I do not have access to the documents of the previous Government, so I cannot judge what the precise circumstances were in which the right hon. Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham) refused to publish a risk register, his predecessor as Secretary of State for Health refused to publish a risk register, or, indeed, the right hon. Member for Wentworth and Dearne (John Healey) refused to publish a risk register when he was a Treasury Minister.