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Correspondence

Sir Brian Mawhinney: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport when the right hon. Member for North-West Cambridgeshire will receive a substantive response to his letter of 28 January on behalf of his constituent, Mr. Aylin. [120021]

Mr. Chris Smith: I give my sincere apologies to the right hon. Member for North-West Cambridgeshire for the delay in responding to his letter of 28 January on behalf of his constituent, Mr. Aylin. I replied to his letter on 19 April.

Stonehenge

Mr. Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will announce the preferred developer of the Stonehenge visitor centre; and if he will make a statement. [119786]

Mr. Alan Howarth: A further statement will be made as soon as it is appropriate.

Countess Road, Amesbury

Mr. Key: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will list the properties in Countess Road, Amesbury (a) which have been purchased on behalf of English Heritage and (b) on which there is an option to purchase on behalf of English Heritage; and if he will make a statement. [119787]

Mr. Alan Howarth: English Heritage owns 18 Countess Road and a small paddock which is accessed from Countess Road and has an option to acquire land at Countess East which includes 14 and 16 Countess Road.

HEALTH

Asylum Seekers

Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department spent (i) directly and (ii) indirectly on asylum seekers in (a) 1995, (b) 1996, (c) 1997, (d) 1998 and (e) 1999; and what estimate has been made of expenditure in 2000. [119487]

Mr. Hutton [holding answer 17 April 2000]: The Home Office will be responding to this Question on behalf of Government as a whole, using information that we have provided to them.

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NHS Treatment Guidelines

Mr. Gerrard: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what action he is taking to review the NHS guidelines for the treatment of people from abroad. The Under-Secretary of State for Health, [120003]

Ms Stuart: Policy on overseas visitors is kept under continuous review. New regulations were recently introduced which require the new primary care trusts to identify and charge overseas visitors where necessary and which also clarified the removal of Hong Kong from the list of countries with which we hold reciprocal healthcare agreements. (The National Health Service (Charges to Overseas Visitors) Amendment Regulations 2000. SI 2000 No.602).

In addition, we are looking at the current guidance available to hospitals and the public with a view to producing revised versions which are more user friendly.

Medicines Control Agency

Helen Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish the high level targets for the Medicines Control Agency for 2000-01. [120348]

Yvette Cooper: The high level targets for the Medicines Control Agency are included in its Annual Business Plan, copies of which have been placed in the Library today.

Physical Punishment

Mr. Brazier: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his Department's consultation document "Protecting Children, Supporting Parents", if he will list the eight countries in which there are explicit bans on physical punishment by parents, citing the documentary evidence for the existence of the ban in each country. [119817]

Mr. Hutton: The countries concerned are listed in the document. They are: Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Cyprus, Croatia and Latvia.

The documentary sources are the Acts and Statutes of the relevant countries.

Circular HSC 1999/162: LAC (99) 28

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many reports he has received from the Social Services Inspectorate about the implementation of circular HSC 1999/162: LAC (99) 28; and how many of these reports indicate that the circular is not being properly implemented. [119862]

Mr. Hutton: No formal reports have been received. However, the Social Services Inspectorate regularly undertakes detailed assessment of local social service authorities' performance including services for learning disabled people. In addition, a survey of the use of the Direction on Choice to which the circular refers was carried out in 1998 and this was followed up by a series of regional seminars in the summer of 1999 to disseminate the lessons learned. We are also developing a national learning disability strategy to be launched later this year which will aim to eliminate inconsistencies in service delivery.

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Regeneration Initiatives

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will list for each (a) area-based and (b) other regeneration-related initiative for which his Department is responsible (i) the amount budgeted and (ii) the total expended in each financial year for the planned lifetime of each initiative; [119789]

(2) if he will list the number and value of (a) bids and (b) grants made in each of the last three financial years for which figures are available, for each (i) area-based and (ii) other regeneration-related initiative for which his Department is responsible. [119795]

Ms Stuart: Health action zones (HAZs) are the only area-based initiative for which the Department is responsible. Most of the additional resources available to health authorities in HAZs are allocated on the basis of a NHS weighted capitation formula rather than through a bidding process. Health Authorities that are HAZs received and spent an additional £5.6 million in the first year of the initiative (1998-99) and £89.4 million in 1999-2000 (£3 million less than budgeted for). Resources for 2000-01 and beyond have yet to be finalised.

Other initiatives classified as regeneration-related initiatives are the Healthy Schools Initiative, Personal Medical Services (PMS) Pilots and the Primary Care and Primary School Partnership pilots.

The resources budgeted for and allocated to the Healthy Schools Initiative, which has now been rolled out across England, were £1.2 million in 1998-99 and £2.9 million in 1999-2000. £5.7 million will be available in 2000-01. No decisions have been made about resources for future years. The cost of the initiative is shared equally between the Department of Health and the Department for Education and Employment.

PMS pilots receive a "fair share" of the resources that would have been available from the general medical services non-cash limited pool. The only additional resources they receive are for preparation costs. The preparation costs for the first two waves of PMS pilots were £2 million in 1997-98, £2 million in 1998-99 and £3 million in 1999-2000. No decisions have yet been made on a third wave.

The Primary Care and Primary School Partnership pilots were budgeted to receive £350,000 in 1999-2000 and 2000-01. £100,000 was carried forward from 1999-2000. No decisions have yet been made about further expenditure.

Slimming Drugs

Mr. Gale: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he intends to implement the ruling of the European Court on the reinstatement of slimming drugs proscribed by the Medicines Control Agency on 9 April. [119995]

Ms Stuart: The United Kingdom Licensing Authority has today rescinded the ban on the marketing of amfepramone, following the European Court's decision to suspend the European ban. Although there are no new safety concerns with this product, in the interests of public health and reassurance to patients, the urgent advice of the Committee on the Safety of Medicines has been

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sought. The European Court has not given any decision in relation to the European ban on phentermine--another anorectic substance previously on the UK market.

PFI Projects

Mr. Swayne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the annual revenue cost is for each of the next 20 years of the PFI projects approved to date. [118861]

Mr. Hutton: The information requested is shown in the following table, and represents private finance initiative schemes which have reached financial close.

	£ million
Financial year	Annual revenue cost(10)
2000-01	114.67
2001-02	204.41
2002-03	268.96
2003-04	317.53
2004-05	317.01
2005-06	317.26
2006-07	314.69
2007-08	313.03
2008-09	310.92
2009-10	307.52
2010-11	305.14
2011-12	304.16
2012-13	304.20
2013-14	304.24
2014-15	303.68
2015-16	300.86
2016-17	300.24
2017-18	300.32
2018-19	300.97
2019-20	299.62

(10) All schemes with a capital value greater than £1 million

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