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Health Authority Funding

Ms Walley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for each health authority for the current financial year in both cash figures and as a percentage the actual allocation and the fair share or target allocation. [107756]

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Mr. Denham: The table gives the information for 1999-2000.

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1999-2000 allocations, targets and distances from targets

	Recurrent allocation	Target	Distance from target	Distance from target	(14) Total allocation
Health authority	£000	£000	£000	%	£000
Avon	582,510	589,434	-6,924	-1.17	582,510
Barking and Havering	256,500	258,434	-1,934	-0.75	256,500
Barnet	209,057	204,463	4,594	2.25	209,057
Barnsley	156,058	160,844	-4,786	-2.98	156,588
Bedfordshire	312,569	324,996	-12,427	-3.82	312,909
Berkshire	431,001	446,620	-15,619	-3.50	431,001
Bexley and Greenwich	289,039	274,466	14,573	5.31	289,039
Birmingham	681,946	679,290	2,656	0.39	681,946
Bradford	311,762	317,304	-5,542	-1.75	312,844
Brent and Harrow	310,379	301,083	9,296	3.09	310,879
Bromley	183,609	184,106	-498	-0.27	183,609
Buckinghamshire	368,084	377,426	-9,343	-2.48	368,084
Bury and Rochdale	248,434	251,674	-3,241	-1.29	249,286
Calderdale and Kirklees	369,064	367,445	1,619	0.44	369,064
Cambridge and Huntingdon	233,706	236,369	-2,663	-1.13	233,706
Camden and Islington	320,052	313,103	6,949	2.22	320,971
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	316,160	309,707	6,454	2.08	317,079
County Durham	411,001	420,738	-9,737	-2.31	411,001
Coventry	200,882	208,064	-7,182	-3.45	200,882
Croydon	202,682	205,238	-2,556	-1.25	202,682
Doncaster	197,811	198,087	-276	-0.14	198,465
Dorset	446,631	436,860	9,771	2.24	446,631
Dudley	183,018	184,858	-1,840	-1.00	183,018
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow	475,900	478,734	-2,835	-0.59	475,900
East and North Hertfordshire	290,037	292,156	-2,118	-0.73	290,037
East Kent	395,915	388,808	7,108	1.83	395,915
East Lancashire	349,892	352,280	-2,389	-0.68	349,892
East London and the City	490,031	514,148	-24,117	-4.69	491,634
East Norfolk	380,037	376,838	3,198	0.85	380,037
East Riding	359,056	361,453	-2,397	-0.66	360,233
East Surrey	244,052	239,039	5,013	2.10	244,052
East Sussex, Brighton and Hove	505,366	494,731	10,634	2.15	505,366
Enfield and Haringey	323,495	321,764	1,731	0.54	323,495
Gateshead and South Tyneside	254,698	256,652	-1,954	-0.76	255,537
Gloucestershire	334,591	322,184	12,408	3.85	334,591
Herefordshire	98,713	98,652	61	0.06	98,713
Hillingdon	154,353	153,696	658	0.43	154,353
Isle of Wight	92,390	86,064	6,326	7.35	92,390
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster	286,339	314,256	-27,917	-8.88	286,339
Kingston and Richmond	208,380	203,787	4,593	2.25	208,380
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham	571,315	574,882	-3,567	-0.62	573,116
Leeds	467,788	466,585	1,203	0.26	469,356
Leicestershire	517,310	530,776	-13,466	-2.54	517,887
Lincolnshire	394,990	392,462	2,528	0.64	394,990
Liverpool	349,120	341,971	7,149	2.09	350,296
Manchester	348,698	340,940	7,758	2.28	349,914
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth	422,995	413,443	9,553	2.31	422,995
Morecambe Bay	205,730	197,059	8,671	4.40	205,730
Newcastle and North Tyneside	332,729	330,977	1,752	0.53	333,829
North and East Devon	300,720	295,287	5,434	1.84	300,720
North and Mid Hampshire	291,934	288,021	3,913	1.36	291,934
North Cheshire	201,585	198,024	3,561	1.80	201,585
North Cumbria	198,290	198,179	111	0.06	198,917
North Derbyshire	228,364	228,939	-575	-0.25	228,364
North Essex	503,561	507,041	-3,480	-0.69	503,561
North Nottinghamshire	236,475	239,324	-2,849	-1.19	236,475
North Staffordshire	303,653	311,809	-8,156	-2.62	304,458
North West Anglia	250,526	255,274	-4,748	-1.86	250,526
North West Lancashire	321,635	322,992	-1,356	-0.42	321,635
North Yorkshire	434,879	436,615	-1,736	-0.40	434,879
Northamptonshire	326,245	321,398	4,847	1.51	326,245
Northumberland	196,014	196,339	-325	-0.17	196,638
Nottingham	390,375	400,526	-10,151	-2.53	391,712
Oxfordshire	327,812	337,381	-9,569	-2.84	327,812
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire	330,353	331,271	-917	-0.28	330,353
Redbridge and Waltham Forest	296,944	283,560	13,384	4.72	296,944
Rotherham	159,162	160,241	-1,079	-0.67	159,696
Salford and Trafford	309,165	302,725	6,440	2.13	310,166
Sandwell	205,153	207,949	-2,795	-1.34	205,838
Sefton	192,028	190,041	1,987	1.05	192,610
Sheffield	366,097	360,678	5,419	1.50	367,283
Shropshire	247,650	248,555	-905	-0.36	247,650
Solihull	122,698	121,100	1,598	1.32	122,698
Somerset	290,097	287,231	2,866	1.00	290,097
South and West Devon	383,067	376,078	6,989	1.86	383,565
South Cheshire	405,696	403,528	2,168	0.54	405,696
South Derbyshire	340,745	347,813	-7,068	-2.03	340,745
South Essex	417,802	432,611	-14,809	-3.42	417,802
South Humber	199,138	192,513	6,625	3.44	199,138
South Lancashire	185,797	181,469	4,328	2.38	185,797
South Staffordshire	322,868	320,147	2,721	0.85	322,868
Southampton and South West Hampshire	327,774	327,461	312	0.10	327,774
St. Helen's and Knowsley	236,408	237,420	-1,013	-0.43	237,210
Stockport	176,374	175,572	802	0.46	176,374
Suffolk	397,601	391,148	6,452	1.65	397,601
Sunderland	200,533	202,063	-1,530	-0.76	201,223
Tees	369,278	372,959	-3,681	-0.99	370,553
Wakefield	211,183	210,413	771	0.37	211,891
Walsall	163,243	165,336	-2,093	-1.27	163,794
Warwickshire	293,422	285,805	7,616	2.66	293,422
West Hertfordshire	317,538	312,558	4,980	1.59	317,538
West Kent	562,935	559,299	3,636	0.65	562,935
West Pennine	297,286	302,185	-4,898	-1.62	297,286
West Surrey	371,000	362,469	8,531	2.35	371,000
West Sussex	467,090	470,645	-3,555	-0.76	467,090
Wigan and Bolton	373,322	385,390	-12,069	-3.13	373,322
Wiltshire	345,684	339,986	5,699	1.68	345,684
Wirral	226,212	221,847	4,365	1.97	226,913
Wolverhampton	160,226	162,577	-2,351	-1.45	160,766
Worcestershire	303,405	298,177	5,228	1.75	303,405
England total	31,162,915	31,162,915	--	--	31,192,915

(14) Includes additional £30 million non-recurrent funding for Health Authorities with HAZs

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Infertility Treatment

Ms Oona King: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' third report on clinical guidelines for infertility treatment. [108209]

Yvette Cooper: I congratulate the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists on their hard work on the third and final set of comprehensive clinical guidelines on the treatment of infertility. I understand that the College will now be distributing the guidelines to all their members.

Hearing Equipment

Mr. Levitt: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the impact of his Department's guidance on services provided by local authority social services departments on equipment to assist deaf and hard of hearing people. [108788]

Mr. Hutton: The Department has made clear the benefits of appropriate equipment and adaptations as part of service provision for people with hearing impairment and have emphasised, most recently through 'Better Care, Higher Standards', the importance of speedy delivery of appropriate equipment to all disabled people. Service provision will be monitored through the Referrals, Assessments and Packages of Care Project with further information provided through the Performance Assessment Framework.

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