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Property Offences

Dr. Tonge: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proportion of the prison population is made up of those convicted of property offences. [34914]

Beverley Hughes [holding answer 11 February 2002]: The proportion of the prison population made up of those convicted of property offences, that is burglary, robbery, arson, taking and driving away, handling stolen goods, criminal damage and other thefts is 39 per cent.

Young Offenders

Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the five most common offences were for which young offenders were brought to trial in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement. [34006]

Beverley Hughes: The available information relates to persons aged 10 and under 18 proceeded against at magistrates courts in England and Wales and is for 2000. Data for 2001 will be published in the autumn.

The five most numerous offence categories are:

Offence proceeded against	Number
Theft from shops	11,907
Using vehicle uninsured against third party risks	10,664
Summary criminal or malicious damage	10,437
Common assault and battery	7,307
Assault occasioning actual bodily harm	6,043

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Criminal Defence Service

Mr. Cameron: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what progress has been made with the Government's plans for pilots for a criminal defence service; and if he will make a statement. [31440]

Mr. Wills: I have been asked to reply.

I believe that this question refers to the pilots of the Public Defender Service (PDS). The Criminal Defence Service is the name of the overall scheme through which

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criminal defence services are provided. It covers a variety of flexible ways of providing services, of which the PDS is one, in order to achieve quality and value for money.

PDS offices opened in Liverpool, Middlesbrough, Swansea and Birmingham on 14, 17 and 21 May and 11 July 2001 respectively. As part of the first phase of the PDS pilot, the Legal Services Commission plans to open a fifth office in Cheltenham in April 2002 and a sixth shortly after that. The location of the sixth office has yet to be settled. A programme of research will begin shortly, which will evaluate the PDS and make recommendations for its future.

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HEALTH

Overseas Treatment (Lutterhaus Hospital)

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is his estimate of the total cost to the NHS of the knee replacements to be carried out on three patients from West Sussex at the Lutterhaus Hospital in Germany in February, including travel costs and accommodation costs; and if he will make a statement. [32876]

Mr. Hutton [holding answer 6 February 2002]: The information requested is commercially confidential.

Air Ambulances

Mr. Flook: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if the Government plans to fund air ambulances throughout Britain once their funding from the Automobile Association finishes. [34964]

Ms Blears: We are currently in discussion with air ambulance charities.

Hospital Waiting Times

Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the expected cost to public funds is of ensuring that by the end of 2005 the maximum waiting time for an out-patient appointment will be three months and for in-patients, six months. [16252]

Mr. Hutton: Health expenditure for the period 2003–04 to 2005–06 will be determined as part of the 2002 spending review, which is due to conclude in summer 2002.

Primary Care Trusts

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment his Department has made of the state of preparedness from primary care groups becoming primary care trusts. [19291]

Mr. Hutton [holding answer 29 November 2001]: There are currently 164 primary care trusts in operation.

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A further 136 proposals have been approved with 19 more proposals being considered to become operational on 1 April 2002.

The estimated total of PCTs operating from 1 April 2002 is expected to be around 300.

The process for approving applications for primary care trust status is contained in Health Service Circular 1999–167. In approving applications to establish PCTs my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State needs to be satisfied that four key criteria are met. These are:

The benefits of what will be achieved.


The degree of support for the proposal.


The 'fitness' of the proposed organisation to deliver.


The impact on other organisations.

These criteria must be demonstrated in the PCT proposal. PCTs are established after full and open consultation locally, giving every opportunity for views and concerns to be expressed and addressed.

Private Hospitals

Mr. Streeter: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average (a) income of and (b) number of patients treated by an acute hospital in England and Wales was in the last financial year. [15290]

Mr. Hutton: The information requested is not available at hospital level. Figures have been provided on a trust basis.

The table shows figures for acute trusts in England in 2000–01. The hospital activity data are based on finished consultant episodes of in-patient care for acute consultant specialties; this does not represent the number of individual patients treated as this information is not available.

The income data show the total income for each trust as a whole (for example, not only acute care). For each trust, total income has been given, but the primary care trust values are 'gross operating costs' because they do not show income in the same way as trusts, however, they are still comparable.

Finished consultant episodes (FCEs) and total income by trust for acute specialities NHS hospitals, England 2000–01

Trust	Acute care FCEs	Total Income £000
Royal Surrey County hospital NHS trust	36,764	87,492
East Somerset NHS trust	29,428	54,053
Bradford hospitals NHS trust	94,277	142,126
Doncaster Royal Infirmary	73,303	108,071
Southend hospital NHS trust	71,547	112,589
The Royal National Orthopaedic NHS trust	7,684	43,222
North Middlesex hospital NHS trust	36,117	86,050
The Hillingdon hospital NHS trust	31,279	95,657
Kingston hospital NHS trust	45,269	107,302
Taunton and Somerset NHS trust	57,133	135,489
Royal National hospital for rheumatic diseases	2,355	10,352
West Dorset general hospitals NHS trust	40,111	70,497
Nuffield Orthopaedic NHS trust	9,651	44,793
Walsall hospitals NHS trust	44,018	88,293
Wirral hospital NHS trust	74,999	142,159
The Cardiothoracic Centre Liverpool NHS trust	12,078	41,454
Royal Liverpool childrens NHS trust	27,186	78,628
Christie hospital NHS trust	32,498	68,428
Bedford hospitals NHS trust	36,509	69,794
Ealing hospital NHS trust	27,373	67,137
Luton and Dunstable hospital NHS trust	46,194	85,936
South Tees Acute hospitals NHS trust	100,838	173,604
Sheffield children's hospital	17,963	41,712
Royal United hospital Bath NHS trust	60,389	104,609
Poole hospitals NHS trust	50,849	88,601
Milton Keynes general hospital	34,141	63,661
Basildon and Thurrock general hospital	50,257	101,882
Eastbourne hospitals NHS trust	42,269	107,619
Frimley Park hospital NHS trust	52,738	89,787
Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch hospitals NHS trust	77,220	101,983
Royal Cornwall hospitals NHS trust	99,638	146,996
Aintree hospitals NHS trust	69,981	132,185
Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology NHS trust	4,444	22,318
Liverpool women's hospital NHS trust	16,173	39,762
Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery NHS trust	5,997	26,249
Wrightington hospital NHS trust	7,911	19,609
Scunthorpe and Goole hospitals NHS trust	41,383	66,522
Barnsley District general hospital	49,593	71,976
Rotherham general hospitals NHS trust	40,062	91,882
Chesterfield and north Derbyshire	54,048	76,668
West Middlesex University NHS trust	25,126	73,519
Bromley hospitals NHS trust	50,346	140,982
Havering hospitals NHS trust	58,568	129,296
Papworth hospital NHS trust	14,736	46,924
Peterborough hospitals NHS trust	56,493	89,107
James Paget hospital NHS trust	42,430	82,909
Ispwich hospital NHS trust	59,420	107,090
West Suffolk hospital NHS trust	48,482	70,753
Brighton Healthcare NHS trust	51,702	141,724
Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS trust	37,545	66,510
Gloucestershire Royal NHS trust	53,922	101,580
Royal Devon and Exeter Healthcare NHS trust	84,202	140,492
Portsmouth hospitals NHS trust	111,296	232,522
Royal Berkshire and Battle hospitals NHS trust	62,504	136,950
Lewisham hospital NHS trust	33,282	97,484
Mayday healthcare NHS trust	36,154	101,456
South Warwickshire general hospital	44,704	59,806
Mid Staffordshire general hospital	45,414	97,295
North Staffordshire hospital NHS trust	119,431	193,823
Burton hospitals NHS trust	39,110	67,068
Good Hope hospital NHS trust	47,180	71,544
Countess of Chester hospital NHS trust	52,154	79,393
The Kings Mill centre for health	66,338	74,933
Plymouth hospitals NHS trust	97,750	188,822
Walsgrave hospitals NHS trust	85,153	205,640
Warrington hospital NHS trust	51,422	78,899
Whittington hospital NHS trust	35,288	85,941
The Princess Royal hospital NHS trust	29,059	43,770
Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt orthopaedic and DH	7,615	32,077
The Royal Wolverhampton hospital	76,693	125,448
Carlisle hospital NHS trust	36,477	67,545
City hospitals Sunderland NHS trust	74,285	140,439
Hereford hospitals NHS trust	31,636	52,659
George Eliot hospital NHS trust	36,531	56,785
Birmingham Women's Healthcare NHS trust	11,598	43,232
City hospital NHS trust	57,087	117,877
Royal Shrewsbury hospitals NHS trust	53,072	80,280
Norfolk and Norwich healthcare NHS trust	118,136	156,358
North Manchester Healthcare NHS trust	48,045	111,810
Tameside and Glossop Acute Services NHS trust	45,670	62,769
Blackpool Victoria hospital NHS trust	76,639	133,028
Swindon and Marlborough NHS trust	45,539	91,032
North Hampshire hospitals NHS trust	32,431	85,233
Dartford and Gravesham NHS trust	30,702	72,379
Dudley group of hospitals NHS trust	64,092	144,195
Newham Healthcare NHS trust	37,146	79,567
Kettering general hospital NHS trust	51,488	92,364
Northampton general hospital NHS trust	63,389	109,332
Stoke Mandeville hospital NHS trust	31,223	70,349
Great Ormond Street hospital for children NHS trust	21,822	132,649
Moorfields eye hospital NHS trust	21,638	43,910
Medway NHS trust	41,279	94,128
The Queen Victoria hospital NHS trust	10,162	22,685
Worthing and Southlands hospitals NHS trust	48,673	84,135
The Royal East Sussex NHS trust	36,474	64,653
The Royal Marsden hospital NHS trust	30,151	86,576
Birmingham children's hospital	23,441	91,388
The Manchester children's hospital	30,001	69,378
Mid Essex hospitals NHS trust	59,748	120,239
The Princess Alexandra hospital	36,475	90,535
Homerton hospital NHS trust	31,947	82,002
Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS trust	78,580	204,824
Pindersfield and Pontefract hospital	78,815	141,434
Royal Orthopaedic hospital NHS trust	11,021	30,200
Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS trust	24,769	130,828
Southern Derbyshire acute hospital	98,446	164,053
Ashford and St. Peter's hospitals NHS trust	29,604	111,223
Morecambe Bay hospitals NHS trust	72,327	129,982
Northwick Park/Central Middlesex	50,928	189,457
Chase Farm Wellhouse NHS trust	67,975	152,511
Epsom/St Helier NHS trust	70,202	174,284
East Kent hospitals NHS trust	109,905	247,128
Southport and Ormskirk NHS trust	50,136	86,709
Hull and East Yorkshire hospital	110,824	212,895
United Lincolnshire hospitals NHS trust	120,448	199,080
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS trust	70,093	155,350
West Hertfordshire hospitals NHS trust	66,202	163,440
Worcestershire acute hospitals NHS trust	80,116	173,566
The United Bristol Healthcare NHS trust	82,729	225,073
Northern general hospital NHS trust	61,663	178,477
The Royal Free Hampstead hospital	59,356	266,340
Central Manchester healthcare trust	64,323	222,543
Nottingham City hospital NHS trust	91,768	186,897
Central Sheffield University hospital	96,914	202,664
Nottingham University hospital	84,046	190,179
Addenbrooke's NHS trust	87,612	217,513
Southampton University hospital	95,232	239,382
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS trust	80,448	403,301
St Mary's hospital NHS trust	56,040	186,056
St George's Healthcare NHS trust	61,202	223,195
King's Healthcare NHS trust	56,718	236,398
South Manchester University hospitals NHS trust	83,990	180,652
Salford Royal Hospitals NHS trust	51,846	123,398
Barts and the London NHS trust	85,561	328,379
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University hospital NHS trust	83,169	196,874
Chelsea and Westminster Healthcare NHS trust	52,342	195,039
The Hammersmith hospitals NHS trust	67,224	273,738
Leeds teaching hospitals NHS trust	178,932	504,292
University hospital Birmingham	70,041	228,410
University College London hospitals NHS trust	58,018	341,910
The Newcastle upon Tyne hospital	149,187	332,014
Oxford Radcliffe hospital NHS trust	102,235	300,442
University hospitals of Leicester NHS trust	181,443	346,083
Total	8,004,613	18,216,628
Average	186,154	423,643

Notes:

Finished consultant episodes data

An FCE is defined as a period of patient care under one consultant in one healthcare provider. The figures do not represent the number of patients, as one person may have several episodes within the year.

FCE figures in this table have not yet been adjusted for shortfalls in data.

Source:

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health.

Income data:

2000–01 income figures remain provisional and are subject to continuing audit by the National Audit Office.

Source:

Primary Care Trust Summarisation Schedules 2000–01

NHS Trust Summarisation Schedules 2000–01

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