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Health Authority Expenditure

Ms Coffey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for each health authority its distance from weighted capitation target for 1997-98. [7936]

Mr. Horam: I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Southend, East (Sir T. Taylor) on 3 December 1996, Official Report, column 638.

Challenge Fund Bids

Ms Coffey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if those bids for centenary care challenge fund approval for 1996-97 will also receive funding in 1997-98. [7938]

Mr. Burns: Arrangements for the continuing care challenge fund are set out in EL(96)109, copies of which are available in the Library; £16 million is available to support continuing health care schemes in 1996-97 and £20 million, to be matched by £40 million from health and/or local authorities, will be available for 1997-98. Health authorities have been asked to submit, separately, bids for funds for 1996-97 by 13 December 1996 and by 24 January 1997 for further funds in 1997-98.

Ms Coffey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what priority will be given to health authorities over their weighted capitation target for mental health challenge fund money in 1997-98. [7940]

Mr. Burns: None. The criteria for assessing bids against the fund are set out in EL(96) 109 issued to chief executives of health authorities and NHS trusts on 29 November 1996.

NHS Trust Finance

Mr. Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the forecast (a) annual income (b) expenditure and (c) operational surplus or deficit at the end of 1996-97 for each NHS trust based on their 1996-97 second quarter returns to the NHS executive; and what is the forecast retained surplus or deficit for each trust at the end of 1996-97 based on these returns and taking account of (i) profit or loss on fixed assets, (ii) net interest receivable or payable and (iii) public dividend capital payable. [7957]

Mr. Malone: The 1996-97 financial information based on forecasts at quarter 2 will be placed in the Library shortly.

Mr. Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his oral answer of 3 December, Official Report, column 779, if he will list the name of the trust and value of the deficit of (a) each of the 16 NHS trusts which recorded real retained deficits in 1994-95, (b) each of the 10 of those NHS trusts which remained in real deficit in 1995-96 and (c) each of the five of those NHS trusts which are forecast to show a further deficit in 1996-97. [7959]

Mr. Malone: The information requested is as follows:

(a) Trusts which recorded real deficits in 1994-95

Trust	Value of deficit £000
Humberside Ambulance	622
United Leeds Teaching Hospitals	334
Louth and District	25
Lincoln Hospitals	257
Sheffield Children's	245
East Anglian Ambulance	68
Mid Anglia Community	44
Royal National Orthopaedic	3,436
Royal National Throat Nose and Ear	826
Greenwich Healthcare	2,888
Crawley Horsham	1,154
Swindon and Marlborough	522
The Poole Hospital	226
Royal United Hospital Bath	2,545
Worcester Royal Infirmary	944
Wolverly	155

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(b) Trusts which remained in real deficit in 1995-96

Trust	Value of deficit £000
United Leeds Teaching	6,988
Lincoln Hospitals	896
East Anglian Ambulance	998
Mid Anglia Community	119
Royal National Orthopaedic	907
Royal National Throat Nose and Ear	3,586
Greenwich Healthcare	4,000
Crawley Horsham	987
Swindon and Marlborough	1,029
Royal United Hospital Bath	586

c) Trusts which are forecasting a further real deficit in 1996-97
The information requested will be placed in the Library shortly.

Mr. Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his oral answer of 3 December, Official Report, column 779, if he will list (a) the name of each NHS trust which is currently forecast to show a deficit at the end of 1996-97 and (b) the values of the end of year deficit forecast for each of these trusts. [7961]

Mr. Malone: The information requested will be placed in the Library shortly.

Mr. Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his oral answer of 3 December, Official Report, column 779, if he will list (a) the name of each NHS trust which had a real retained deficit at the end of 1995-96 and (b) the value of the deficit recorded by each of these trusts in that year. [7960]

Mr. Malone: The information requested is as follows:

Trust	Value of deficit £000
Crawley and Horsham	987
Derby City General Hospital	2,171
Dorset Community	446
East Anglian Ambulance	998
East Somerset Hospital	291
Forest Healthcare	2,361
Greenwich Healthcare	4,000
Harefield Hospital	593
Heathlands Mental Health	788
Horton General Hospital	737
Ipswich Hospital	158
Lincoln Hospitals	896
Mid Anglia Community Health	119
North Kent Healthcare	730
Northwick Park Hospital	629
Oxfordshire Learning Disabilities	317
Pinderfields Hospital	3,161
Royal Cornwall Hospital and West Cornwall Hospital	485
Royal Hospital of St. Barts, Royal London and London Chest Hospital	5,938
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital	907
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital	3,586
Royal United Hospital, Bath	586
Scarborough and NE Yorks. Healthcare	3,184
South Devon Healthcare	821
South Manchester University Hospitals	5,962
Southend Community Care	750
St. Albans and Hemel Hempstead	32
St. James's and Seacroft University Hospital	2,789
St. Mary's Hospital	1,024
Swindon and Marlborough	1,029
The Royal Surrey County	334
The Royal West Sussex	1,465
United Leeds Teaching Hospital	6,988
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals	2,964

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Contraception

Mrs. Ann Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what information is available through the common information core element of the "The Health of the Nation" strategy monitoring programme of the NHS executive as to (a) the number of girls aged under 16 years contacting general medical practitioners for contraceptives and (b) the number of girls aged under 16 years contacting family planning clinics in each of the last three years for which figures are available; and if he will give a breakdown of those figures by health authority. [7834]

Mr. Horam: The information requested will be placed in the Library.

Mrs. Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) whether it remains his policy not to collect information centrally about contraception and teenage women; and what assessment he has made of the consistency of that policy with the terms of the letter from the NHS executive headquarters dated 12 November to Mrs. Victoria Gillick; [7835]

(2) what assessment he has made of the statement in the letter from the NHS executive dated 12 November to Mrs. Victoria Gillick that common information core data relating to first contacts, including those involving conception rates and contraceptives, is collected as part of the NHS executive's performance management framework. [7836]

Mr. Horam: Some information is collected centrally about contraception and teenage women. I will write to my hon. Friend about this and the letter from the national health service executive headquarters dated 12 November to Mrs. Victoria Gillick.

Bridge Child Care Development Scheme

Ms Coffey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to fund the Bridge child care development scheme for the next financial year. [7937]

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Mr. Burns: The Bridge child care consultancy service is, as its name implies, a consultancy management service which local authorities commission in the normal way. I have no plans to commission the Bridge to undertake any work for the Department of Health at present.

Intensive and High Dependency Care

Ms Coffey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if those bids for funding of adult intensive and high dependency care approved for 1996-97 will also receive funding in 1997-98. [7939]

Mr. Horam: Yes.

North Yorkshire Ambulance Service

Mr. Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department last met (i) the chairman and (ii) the chief executive of the North Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS trust. [7956]

Mr. Horam: Ministers have had no recent meetings with the North Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS trust, but the national health service executive continues to have regular meetings with the trust.

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