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Mr. Fitzpatrick: To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (1) how many direct access hostel places in London currently cater for clients with partners; [9008]
- (2) how many direct access hostel places in London cater for clients with pets. [9009]
Mr. Raynsford: This information is not held centrally.
Mr. Fitzpatrick:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how many direct access hostel places there are currently in London. [9007]
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Mr. Raynsford:
This information is not held centrally. The London Hostels Directory, published by Resource Information Service, and partly funded by my Department, gives details of more than 27,000 bedspaces in over 600 different buildings. It is not possible to say how many of these places are direct access. As part of the Rough Sleepers Initiative in London, my Department is funding 278 places in hostels and nightshelters. Most, though not all of these places will be direct access.
Mrs. Ballard:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what research his Department has conducted into the correlation between income levels and council tax bands. [9070]
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Mr. Raynsford:
None. The council tax is a property based tax and council tax benefit is available to help meet the bills of people on low incomes.
Mr. Chidgey:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions how much his Department spends on biking press releases to (a) hon. Members and (b) other individuals or groups, each time his Department issues a press release; how many such press releases were issued by his Department (i) in the period 1 May to 1 July and (ii) in the period 1 January to 1 March; and if he will review his Department's use of couriers to deliver press releases and investigate the possibility of using fax or e-mail. [8810]
Angela Eagle:
The Department uses a courier for delivery of press releases to the Press Gallery. This is part of a general courier service for the Department as a whole and costs for these specific deliveries are not separately identified.
With this exception, it is not normal practice for the Department to send press releases by courier to hon. Members, other individuals or groups.
In common with other Departments, press releases are distributed to the media through the Central Office of Information's News Distribution Service, which utilises a combination of electronic and hard copy delivery methods. In addition to this, the Department issues releases to other interested parties by post, or exceptionally fax.
Mr. Vaz:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions if orders have been submitted for (a) the Leicester Eastern district distributor road and (b) the Leicester A46-47 link road scheme stage 2. [8324]
Ms Glenda Jackson:
(a) No; (b) Yes.
Mr. Vaz:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will make a statement on the funding considerations underlying his Department's advice to the city council to apply for funding through the 1998-99 TPP bid for the Leicester A46-47 trunk road. [8325]
Ms Jackson:
My Department's advice was that if the City Council wished the A46-47 scheme to have any possibility of obtaining funding under the 1998-99 TPP settlement they must bid for it. In giving the advice it was made clear that there can be no guarantee of funding for this or any other project, ahead of the settlement.
Mr. Vaz:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what is his Department's policy on the construction of the Leicester A46-47 link road; and what priority it accords to (a) environmental issues and (b) economic benefit in determining this policy. [8326]
Ms. Jackson:
The policy on the construction of the A46-47 link road is the same as that for all road schemes presented to the Secretary of State. The overall merits are assessed in the context of the public interest.
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The A46-47 forms part of the accepted package of transport proposals which constitute the Central Leicestershire Package. Advice on the appraisal of projects and on the preparation of package bids is issued to authorities each year. This covers, inter alia, environmental issues and economic benefit.
Mr. Cox:
To ask the secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the red-route proposals under consideration by his Department for the London Borough of Wandsworth.[9098]
Ms Glenda Jackson:
The roads in Wandsworth designated as red routs are the A3, A24, A205, A214, A217, A306, A3205 and A3220. We are currently consulting on whether the A214 should remain in the red route network. The implementation programme for other red routes in Wandsworth is set out in the Traffic Director for London's Annual Report and Accounts for 1996-97, a copy of which is in the Library.
Mr. Chidgey:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what assessment he has made of the decision by train operators to limit when network card holders can use their cards; and if he will make a statement. [8227]
Ms Glenda Jackson:
The Government has no powers to prevent train operators changing the conditions applying to the Network Card. Train operators' participation in the Network Card scheme is entirely voluntary and there is no formal obligation on them to offer the Network Card.
Mr. Jack:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the hospitals and health units currently subject to proposals for closure. [6824]
Mr. Milburn:
The information requested is not collected systematically. However, a recent survey carried out for management purposes identified the hospitals listed as having recently been, or are currently, the subject of consultation which could lead to the full closure. Closure is normally dependent on the reprovision of services elsewhere and/or are conditional on a successful Private Finance Initiative contract.
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Mr. Jack:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the health authorities and trusts which have been deemed by the regional offices of the NHS Executive to have serious financial problems at the close of the 1996-97 financial year. [7758]
Mr. Milburn:
The names of health authorities and trusts assessed as having serious financial problems are disclosed in the following tables.
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Mr. Milburn:
The information requested for 1996-97 non-technical deficits is available in the following table. The deficit disclosed for these trusts may contain an element of technical deficit but the total cannot be further analysed into technical elements and non-technical elements from information available.
Anglia and Oxford
Chesterton Hospital
Fulbourn Hospital
Ida Darwin Hospital
St. Andrew's Hospital
Northern and Yorkshire
St. Mary's Hospital
Walkergate Hospitals
Winterton Hospitals.
North Western
Ulverston Hospital.
North Thames
Goodmayes Hospital
Horton Hospital
Napsbury Hospital
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Hackney 1
Queen Charlotte's Hospital 1
Runwell Hospital
St. Andrew's Hospital
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 1
Shenley Hospital
Warley Hospital.
South Thames
Battle Hospital
Bromley Hospital
Eversfield Hospital
Joyce Green Hospital (including the Orchard House Psychiatric Unit)
Sundridge Hospital
West Hill Hospital.
South Western
Belmont Hospital
Lynton Hospital 2
Odiham Hospital
Ridley House
Winsford Hospital. 2
Trent
Badsley Moor Lane Hospital
West Midlands
All Saints Hospital
Hereford Eye Hospital
Hereford General Hospital
Highcroft Hospital
Goscote Hospital
Monyhull Hospital
Northcroft Hospital
St. Edward's Hospital
Stanfield Hospital
Stallington Hospital
Westcliffe Hospital
Wordsley Hospital.
Notes:
1 There is a moratorium on all hospital closures in London during the current review of the capital's health services.
2 Temporary closures.
Health authorities with serious financial problems at Q4 1996-97
Barking and Havering
Barnet
Bedfordshire
Berkshire
Bexley and Greenwich
Bradford
Brent and Harrow
Buckinghamshire
Calderdale and Kirklees
Cambridge
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Dudley
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow
East and North Hertfordshire
East London and City
East Norfolk
East Surrey
Enfield and Haringey
Isle of Wight
Kingston and Richmond
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham
Leeds
Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth
Newcastle
North and East Devon
North and Mid Hants
North Cumbria
North Essex
North West Anglia
North Yorkshire
Oxfordshire
Redbridge and Waltham Forest
Sandwell
Solihull
Somerset
Suffolk
Wakefield
West Surrey
West Sussex
Wiltshire.
Trusts with serious financial problems at Q4 1996-97
Airedale
Alexandra Health Care
Anglian Harbours
Ashford Hospital
Brighton Health Care
Christie Hospital
City Hospitals
Countess of Chester Hospital
Derby City General Hospital
East Anglian Ambulance
East Cheshire
East Somerset
East Surrey Healthcare
Epsom Health Care
Essex Rivers Healthcare
Forest Healthcare
George Eliot Hospital
Hillingdon Hospital
Ipswich Hospital
Mr. Jack:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the NHS trusts which have non-technical deficits indicating the amount of their (a) technical and (b) non-technical deficits. [7760]
Lewisham Hospital
Mayday Healthcare
Mid Essex Hospital Services
Mount Vernon and Watford Hospitals
North East Lincolnshire
Northampton Community Healthcare
Northampton General Hospital
Northwick Park and St. Mark's
Oxford Radcliffe Hospital
Peterborough Hospitals
Pilgrim Health
Pinderfields Hospitals
Pontefract Hospitals
Preston Acute Hospitals
Queen Mary's Sidcup
Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton Healthcare
Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals
Royal Devon and Exeter Healthcare
Royal Hospital of St. Bartholomew, the Royal London Hospital and London Chest Hospital
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals
Royal Victoria Infirmary and Associated Hospitals
Scunthorpe and Goole Hospitals
South Buckinghamshire
St. Albans and Hemel Hempstead
St. James's and Seacroft University Hospital
St. Mary's
Stockport Acute Services
Stoke Mandeville Hospital
The Horton General Hospital
The King's Mill Centre for Health Care Services
The Poole Hospital
United Leeds Teaching Hospitals
University College London Hospitals
West Middlesex University Hospital.
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