Question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to his announcement of Child Benefits in Pregnancy in his 2006 Pre-Budget Speech, if he will place in the Library copies of (a) representations he has received and (b) minutes of meetings he has held on that policy since that date.
Answer
Representations received on the Health in Pregnancy Grant since the 2006 pre-Budget report are contained in the Treasury's 14 November 2007 press notice on the grant, on the HM Treasury website. Treasury Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of organisations in the public and private sectors as part of the process of policy development and delivery. As was the case with previous Administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings.