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Mr. Worthington: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what is the budget for discretionary and postgraduate student awards in cash and constant price terms for 1996-97 and 1997-98; what consequences this will have for the provision of services; and if he will make a statement. [10983]
Mr. Ancram: It is a matter for each education and library board to determine how much of its block grant should be allocated to discretionary awards. The 1996-97 budget is £6.9 million but that for 1997-98 has yet to be determined.
| £ million | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Budget (cash) | At 1996-97 prices |
| 1996-97 | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| 1997-98 | 4.4 | 4.3 |
The detailed application of the 1997-98 budget is still under consideration.
I will write to the hon. Member about both discretionary and postgraduate awards when further
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information becomes available and I will place a copy in the Library.
Mr. Worthington:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the changes in financial and policy terms to the provision for urban regeneration, including "Making Belfast Work", arising from his recent statement on public expenditure in Northern Ireland. [10987]
Mr. Moss:
The recent statement on public expenditure in Northern Ireland re-iterated the importance that the Government place on urban regeneration as a major policy initiative. "Making Belfast Work" will have £23 million available for its economic and social programmes in 1997-98 representing a £5 million baseline reduction in the existing allocation.
Otherwise, urban regeneration vote provision is to be reduced by £4 million over the same period, leaving almost £31 million available for regeneration initiatives in Belfast, Londonderry and regional growth centres.
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Mr. Maginnis:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when he proposes to publish the 1996 report on the Royal Ulster Constabulary by Her Majesty's inspector of constabulary. [12586]
Sir Patrick Mayhew:
Copies of the 1996 inspection report, which is the fourth RUC inspection report to be published, have today been placed in the Library.
I welcome the report and will be considering its recommendations carefully.
HMIC inspections offer the opportunities of independent, professional examination of policing practices, policies and priorities. This inspection forms part of an ongoing programme intended to examine over succeeding years aspects of police management. It is the fourth in a series and has covered a number of areas relating to the effectiveness and efficiency of operational policing.
I am grateful to Her Majesty's inspector for the report and am pleased to note that overall he regards the force as efficient.
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Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will make it his policy to ensure that every child moved from one foster home to another more than three times should be assessed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; and if he will make a statement. [11532]
Mr. Burns:
The criteria for taking children into care is set out in sections 20 and 31 of the Children Act 1989.
Local authorities have responsibilities and duties under the Children Act to arrange placement for children looked after which will promote and safeguard their welfare. In order to achieve this, authorities must undertake a full assessment of children's needs, including health needs, and match them to appropriate placements. The assessment should, when appropriate, be in collaboration with other agencies. It is for local authorities to monitor the number of times children are moved because of placement breakdown.
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Mrs. Ray Michie:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to safeguard rural pharmacies. [11474]
Mr. Malone:
In England and Wales the essential small pharmacy scheme already provides financial support to pharmacies located more than 1 km from the next nearest pharmacy and which dispense fewer than 18,636 national health service prescriptions in a year.
Mr. Thurnham:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the average cost of a resident in (a) private nursing homes, (b) private residential homes and (c) local authority residential homes; and what estimate he has made of the total number of residents in (a) to (c) and the current annual costs to public funds arising from funding relating to (a) to (c). [11487]
Mr. Burns:
Information is collected centrally on the overall numbers of residents of all types of care homes but not on the overall costs or costs per place in independent sector homes, nor on the costs to public funds overall of residents. The latest centrally available information is given in the table, including figures for gross current expenditure per week by local authorities on residential and nursing care for older people per supported resident.
(2) what recent evidence he has evaluated in respect of the number of times children in care are moved; if he will make it his policy to require all social service departments to incorporate a full assessment for attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder by a specially qualified medical practitioner into the social services' own assessment as to whether a child should enter care; and if he will make a statement. [11507]
| (a) | (b) | (c) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Independent sector nursing homes(13) | Independent sector residential homes(13) | Local authority residential homes | |
| Total number of residents(14), at 31 March 1996 | 123,600 | 228,600 | 64,200 |
| Gross current expenditure by local authorities in England, 1994-95 | £371 million | £507 million | £824 million |
| Local authority gross current expenditure per week for older people per supported residents(14), 1994-95 | £231 | £246 | £283 |
Notes:
(13) Information on expenditure on independent sector residential care homes is not broken down between private and voluntary homes.
(14) Residents in staffed homes only.
Source:
Department of Health annual statistical returns.
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Hypothermia
Mr. Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what has been the cost of treating (a) hypothermia and (b) hypothermia-related cases in each of the last five years. [11473]
Mr. Burns: This information is not collected.
Dental Services
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 6 December 1996, Official Report, column 820, relating to dentists' pay, what is his definition of a single dentist. [11606]
Mr. Malone: In my answer of 6 December, Official Report, column 820, the "single dentist" was the
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independent contractor who was paid the highest gross fee earnings by the Dental Practice Board in the relevant year.
Capital Projects (Greater London)
Mr. John Marshall: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the capital projects costing over £100,000 which have been started in Greater London since 17 April 1992. [11488]
Mr. Malone: Information is available centrally only on capital schemes costing over £1 million, for which national health service executive approval is required. All such schemes in Greater London, with a start on site date between 17 April 1992 and 30 September 1996--the most recent date for which information is available--are provided in the table.
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| Regional office | Scheme name | Cost(15) (£ millions) | Start date |
|---|
| North Thames | Hammersmith Energy Centre M and E installation, Hammersmith Hospital | 1.32 | 18 May 1992 |
| North Thames | Hammersmith Hospital Cancer Centre | 3.76 | 1 June 1992 |
| North Thames | Hammersmith Hospital Energy Centre, incineration installation | 1.21 | 5 June 1992 |
| South Thames | St. Thomas' Hospital A and E upgrade/ extension | 2.35 | 20 July 1992 |
| North Thames | Central Middlesex Acute Secure Unit/mother and baby unit | 2.03 | 27 July 1992 |
| South Thames | St. George's Hospital combined heat and power | 3.58 | 24 August 1992 |
| North Thames | Regency Street Nursing Home for the Elderly (Victoria) | 1.78 | 2 November 1992 |
| North Thames | Great Ormond Street Southwood balconies and stairs | 1.83 | 23 November 1992 |
| South Thames | Queen Victoria Hospital Burns Unit | 1.44 | 29 December 1992 |
| North London | Chase Farm Hospital (Enfield) Centralization of in-patient services | 10.32 | 1 April 1993 |
| North London | Great Ormond Street Camelia Botnar Laboratories | 11.16 | 3 May 1993 |
| South Thames | St. George's Atkinson Morley Hospital theatres | 2.35 | 4 May 1993 |
| South Thames | St. John's Twickenham Redevelopment Phase 2 | 2.92 | 1 June 1993 |
| North Thames | Homerton Relocation of services | 10.26 | 5 July 1993 |
| North Thames | Royal Free Hampstead Renal Unit centralisation | 3.40 | 20 September 1993 |
| North Thames | Whipps Cross Phase 2 | 5.61 | 25 October 1993 |
| South Thames | Kings College Hospital Redevelopment of A and E/Radiology | 5.04 | 1 February 1994 |
| South Thames | Springfield Hospital Forensic Psychiatry Clinic | 3.02 | 28 February 1994 |
| North Thames | Moorfields Eye Hospital Redevelopment Phase 3A | 3.13 | 1 April 1994 |
| North Thames | Homerton Development of A and E extension | 1.52 | 11 April 1994 |
| South Thames | South Western Hospital Redevelopment | 10.13 | 18 April 1994 |
| North Thames | Medium Secure Unit--Hackney | 4.62 | 19 April 1994 |
| North Thames | Barnet General Hospital | 16.78 | 1 August 1994 |
| South Thames | Royal Hospital Richmond Redevelopment | 7.00 | 31 December 1994 |
| South Thames | Kings College Hospital A and E and Out-patients Department | 2.39 | 1 February 1995 |
| South Thames | Lewisham Phase 2 Redevelopment | 13.15 | 18 April 1995 |
| North Thames | Homerton Hospital Acute services development | 11.36 | 5 August 1996 |
Source:
Department of Health, NHSE Estates.
Notes:
(15) Figures rounded up to the nearest two decimal points.
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