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Emergency Care Services
Mr. Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to make an announcement on the future of emergency care services. [19552]
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Capital Limits (Residential Accommodation)
Mr. Luff: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what will be the final allocation in 1996-97 to social services authorities in England in respect of costs incurred as a result of the raising from 8 April of the capital limits for charges for residential accommodation. [19553]
Mr. Dorrell: Following consultation with the local authority associations about the implications of the changes to the capital limits, the Government have decided, subject to parliamentary approval of the 1996-97 main estimates, to make available £64.487 million for English social services authorities in 1996-97. The increase compared with the element for England underlying the figures published in the "Financial Statement and Budget Report, 1996-97", will be charged to the reserve and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure for 1996-97. Subject to parliamentary approval, this provision will be made available to local authorities through a special grant in 1996-97; thereafter these resources will be taken into account in the calculation of the revenue support grant in the normal way. Consequential provisions will be made for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Capital Disregard Rules
(Residential and Nursing Homes)
Ms Coffey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) when he plans to announce the distribution formula for additional funding to local authorities as a consequence of the changes in capital disregard rules for assessment for residential and nursing homes; [18974]
- (2) what estimate he has made of the total reductions of income to local authorities as a result of changes to capital disregard rules for assessment for residential and nursing homes; [18975]
Mr. Bowis: I refer the hon. Member to the reply my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State gave my hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr. Luff) today.
Capita Group
Mr. Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list those private finance initiative schemes in which the Capita Group is (a) expressing an interest and (b) bidding. [19178]
Mr. Horam: The information requested is not available centrally. It is for individual national health services trusts and health authorities to determine the private sector companies that they negotiate with when preparing a private finance initiative scheme.
GP Prescribing
Mr. Morgan: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the annual average cost of prescriptions per patient prescribed by (a) general practitioner fundholders and (b) non-fundholding general practitioners for each year since the introduction of fundholding for which the figures are available for (i) England, (ii) each regional health authority and (iii) each family health service authority. [14967]
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Mr. Malone [pursuant to his reply, 13 February 1996, c. 562]: I regret that there was an error in the information provided. The correct information available is shown in the table.
| GP fundholders | Non GP fundholders | |
|---|---|---|
| 1991-92 | 36.92 | 38.84 |
| 1992-93 | 41.40 | 43.64 |
| 1993-94 | 45.88 | 48.20 |
| 1994-95 | 50.24 | 52.28 |
| 1995-96 (to Q2) | 52.16 | 54.48 |
1. NIC/PU=net ingredient cost per prescribing unit.
2. NIC is essentially the cost of prescriptions before allowing for pharmacists' discounts and container costs.
3. PUs are a weighting used to adjust for the higher cost of drugs for older people. Each person counts as 1 PU for under 65-year-olds, 3 PUs for 65-years-olds and older.
4. The two groups (Fundholding GPs/Non-Fundholding GPs) are not exclusive--during the period some non fundholders will have become fundholding and vice versa.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Football Hooligans
Mr. Pendry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) how many people were listed on the National Criminal Intelligence Service's database of suspected football hooligans at the end of each season since 1990-91; and how many are currently listed; [17851]
- (2) how many foreign nationals from each of the countries participating in the Euro '96 championship are listed on the National Criminal Intelligence Service's database of suspected football hooligans. [17852]
Mr. Maclean: The National Criminal Intelligence Service football unit's computer system does not retain information about the number of people listed on the database on a season-by-season basis. The names of 6,010 suspected or known football hooligans are on the system at present. The database does not hold information concerning foreign nationals.
Mr. Pendry: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action he has taken to ensure that foreign nationals convicted of football-related offences in their home country are prevented from attending the Euro '96 championships. [17850]
Mr. Maclean: The police are working closely with the Immigration Service to ensure that foreign nationals convicted of football-related offences coming to the United Kingdom for Euro '96 are identified on arrival and, if appropriate, refused entry.
The majority of those attending the championships will be nationals of the European Economic Area, EEA--which comprises the 15 member states of the European Union, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein--who can be refused entry to the United Kingdom where information on their past conduct, which can include previous convictions, suggests that they pose a genuine and serious threat to public safety. Non-EEA nationals can be refused entry to the United Kingdom under the relevant provisions of the immigration rules.
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Mr. Pendry:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the Premier league and Football league clubs together with the number of people arrested and subsequently given an exclusion order under the Public Order Act 1986 for each season since 1990-91. [17849]
Mr. Maclean:
Information in the form requested is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. The total number of exclusion orders made since part IV of the Public Order Act 1986 came into force on 1 August 1987, is 6,303; 308 orders are currently extant.
Mr. Redmond:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he will make available to hon. Members the review of the case for statutory regulation of the private security industry. [17950]
Mr. Maclean:
Our review is a continuing exercise to examine the case for regulation of the private security industry. The Home Affairs Committee report has made a valuable contribution to our considerations and the Government's response will reflect our conclusions.
Mr. Robert Ainsworth:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if the Charity Commission investigated payments to Efficiency in Local Government Ltd. from the Foundation for Business Responsibilities as part of its inquiries into the foundation. [18095]
Mr. Sackville:
The Charity Commission has not carried out any such investigation.
Mr. Ainsworth:
To ask the Secretary of state for the Home Department on what dates the Charity Commission's second inquiry into the payments by the Foundation for Business Responsibilities to Marketforce Communications (a) began and (b) ended; when the Charity Commission received the list of donors to the foundation; if he will make a statement on the Charity Commission's access to the research projects and leaflets which were produced by Marketforce Communications on behalf of the Foundation for Business Responsibilities; and if he will make a statement on the activities of the Foundation for Business Responsibilities since 1992. [18201]
Mr. Sackville
[holding answer 29 February 1996]: The Charity Commission's second inquiry began on 18 November 1993 and ended on 31 March 1995. It is regretted that the answer given to the hon. Member on 13 July 1995, Official Report, columns 697-98, mistakenly referred to this as a period of four and a half months. A list of donors to the foundation was received by the commission on 23 December 1991. The commission has a copy of one leaflet produced by Marketforce Communications Ltd., which was provided in connection with the first inquiry. It is understood that, since 1992, the foundation has been involved in the sponsorship of and participation in research and educational activities covering subjects such as health issues of employees, insider trading, business ethics and responsible global marketing.
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