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CABINET OFFICE
Late Payment
Mr. Efford: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office (1) what steps she has taken to ensure that Government organisations settle invoices within a 30 day period; [134105]
- (2) what steps she has taken to ensure that small businesses automatically receive interest from Government organisations on late payments made after 30 days of being invoiced; [134103]
(3) what recent discussions she has had with ministerial colleagues on compensation for payment by public bodies after 30 days of invoices from small businesses. [134106]
Mr. Stringer: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given earlier today by my hon. Friend the Minister of State for Trade and Industry.
Telephone Steering Systems
Mr. Ben Chapman: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office how many letters of (a) complaint and (b) approbation have been received with regard to the touch tone steering system installed on her office's public inquiry line. [134050]
Mr. Stringer: There are no records of any letters of complaint or approbation received.
Mr. Ben Chapman: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if the touch tone steering system installed on her office's public inquiry line charges premium rates. [134049]
Mr. Stringer: The system does not charge premium rates.
Mr. Ben Chapman: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what staff savings have been made as a result of the use of the touch tone steering system installed on her office's public inquiry line. [134051]
Mr. Stringer: The system was implemented as an additional service and has, therefore, not resulted in any staff savings.
Mr. Ben Chapman: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what value for money studies have been carried out regarding the touch tone steering system installed on her Office's public inquiry line. [134053]
Mr. Stringer: To date, no value for money studies have been considered necessary for what is, essentially, a simple routing system to different operators.
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Private Sector Secondments
Dr. Brand: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office if she will list the private sector companies from which secondments have been made to her Department since June 1997. [133871]
Mr. Stringer: During the period June 1997 to August 2000 there have been 20 private sector companies from which secondments have been made into the Cabinet Office. They are as listed;
- Anderson Consulting
- Barclays Bank plc
- British Airways
- BT
- Carillion
- Energis
- Frontier Economics
- Hay Management Consultants
- KPMG
- Lloyds Bank plc
- Marks & Spencer
- McKinsey & Co.
- Microsoft Corporation
- Nat West Bank plc
- Oracle plc
- PriceWaterhouseCoopers
- Sun Microsystems
- Unilever
- Wragge & Co.
- Zurich Financial Services.
HEALTH
Waiting Lists (Gloucestershire)
Mr. Nigel Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients on NHS waiting lists in Gloucestershire who would normally have been treated within the South West Region have been treated elsewhere in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [125546]
Mr. Denham: The information requested is not collected centrally. The hon. Member may wish to contact Mr. Chris Creswick, Chairman of Gloucestershire Health Authority, for information on this matter.
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NHS Costs
Mr. Gerald Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the total cost to the NHS was of treating sexually transmitted diseases including in-patient and outpatient treatment and prevention in (a) 1970, (b) 1980, (c) 1990 and (d) 1999; [126839]
- (2) what the total cost was of providing abortions on the NHS in (a) 1970, (b) 1980, (c) 1990 and (d) 1999; [126826]
(3) what the cost was to the NHS of treating cancer of the cervix and other cervical abnormalities in (a) 1970, (b) 1980, (c) 1990 and (d) 1999; [126840]
(4) what the cost to the NHS was of infertility treatment in (a) 1970, (b) 1980, (c) 1990 and (d) 1999; and of this, how much was as a consequence of previous sexually-transmitted disease, with particular reference to chlamydia. [126841]
Yvette Cooper: The information requested is not available centrally.
Sterilisation
Mr. Gerald Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many (a) sterilisations and (b) reversals of sterilisation were carried out by the NHS in (i) 1970, (ii) 1980, (iii) 1990 and (iv) 1999; how many were requested as a result of people getting married or acquiring new partners; and what the total cost to the NHS was in each of those years. [126838]
Yvette Cooper [pursuant to her reply, 3 July 2000, c. 39W]: I regret that the information I gave in the table in my previous reply was incorrect. It should read:
| Procedure | (12)1980 | 1990-91 | 1998-99 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female sterilisation | 16,954 | 44,904 | 48,194 |
| Female sterilisation reversal | 6,831 | 1,556 | 699 |
| Male sterilisation | 39,270 | 36,670 | 35,609 |
| Male sterilisation reversal | 890 | 1,745 | 896 |
(12) 1980 data were collected via the Hospital In-Patient Inquiry which was based on a 1 in 10 sample of discharges and deaths from non-Psychiatric and non-Maternity NHS Hospitals in England.
Cardiac Surgery
Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients are awaiting cardiac surgery in (a) Teeside Region and (b) Middlesborough, South and Cleveland East; and if he will make a statement. [130502]
Mr. Denham: At the end of March 2000, 291 patients in the Tees Health Authority area were waiting for elective admission to a consultant whose main speciality is cardiothoracic surgery. Cardiothoracic surgery includes heart and lung surgery. The information is not collected at constituency level.
Traffic Wardens
Mr. Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will have discussions with London borough councils with a view to stopping traffic wardens issuing parking tickets to the vehicles of nurses displaying a notice indicating that they are attending to patients in their homes; and if he will make a statement. [133421]
Mr. Hill: I have been asked to reply.
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We recognise the parking problems faced by doctors and other healthcare workers including nurses who are required to make home visits. A system to provide concessionary parking for these workers on emergency calls is currently in operation. It is called the Health Emergency Badge. The general attitude of the London Boroughs to routine visits is that these workers must plan time to park legally and pay the relevant fees (for which they may then receive reimbursement from their employer). Whether or not some routine work should be excused from normal parking rules is down to individual London Boroughs.
National Poisons Information Service
Mr. Tyler: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will list the members of the National Poisons Information Service Board; and how details of their meeting schedule, agendas and minutes can be obtained; [127020]
- (2) what reason the National Poisons Information Service has not submitted its annual reports, due in July 1999 and March 2000, to his Department; and what steps he has taken to ensure that the contractual commitments of the NPIS have been delivered; [127022]
(3) what were the terms of the contracts between his Department and the National Poisons Information Service between 1995 and the current year. [127023]
Yvette Cooper [pursuant to her reply, 28 June 2000, c. 510-11]: I regret that there was an error in my previous reply. The calendar year referred to in the last paragraph of the reply should read 1997.
Mr. Tyler: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 28 June 2000, Official Report, columns 511-12W, (1) if he will place in the Library a copy of the outstanding National Poisons Information Service Centre reports for the year 1999-2000 that were scheduled to be completed by the end of June; [133299]
- (2) if he will make it his policy to allow a lay representative on the National Poisons Information Service; [133288]
(3) if he will place in the Library the reports made by the National Poisons Information Service Centre to comply with the provisions of European Commission Resolution 90/C 329/03. [133300]
Yvette Cooper [pursuant to her reply, 28 July 2000, c. 1000]: I regret that there was an error in my previous reply. The year of the last report referred to in the last paragraph of the reply should read (1997).
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