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Tobacco Sponsorship (Darts)

Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what the outcome has been of the Government Task Force set up to help sports find alternative sources of revenue to replace tobacco sponsorship, with particular reference to darts; and if she will make a statement. [40481]

Mr. Caborn: The Tobacco Task Force last met in October 1999. Following that meeting it was agreed that the task force had completed its initial work of identifying the needs of sports affected by the ban on tobacco sponsorship. Those sports included in the task force confirmed that it was too soon to be looking to replace existing contracts, and that the situation should be reviewed before the expiry of current contracts. We have been in contact with the member sports since 1999 and will consider the case for reconvening the task force if requested to.

I have recently been contacted by the British Darts Association. I have confirmed that I am happy to assist the association in discussions with alternative sponsors as and when interested companies are identified.

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HEALTH

Parliamentary Questions

Ms Stuart: To ask the Secretary of Health when he will reply to the question from the hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston to which he gave holding replies in July. [9705]

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he will reply to WPQ numbers (a) 9416, (b) 9403, (c) 8710, (d) 10282, (e) 10262, (f) 11000, (g) 10998, (h) 11957, (i) 12914, (j) 12918 and (k) 13108. [17827]

Mrs. Lait: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will list, in real terms, for each year since 1979 (a) the total sums of money spent directly by his Department in Scotland and (b) the total sums of money allocated by his Department for spending in Scotland through (i) the Scottish Office, (ii) the Scotland Office and (iii) the Scottish Executive; [16184]

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham can expect answers to his Questions Ref. (a) 7597 (holding answer 15.10.01), (b) 7600 (holding answer 15.10.01), (c) 7606 (holding answer 15.10.01), (d) 24676 (holding answer 15.10.01), (e) 24341 (holding answer 15.10.01), (f) 12606 (holding answer 5.11.01), (g) 19224 (holding answer 29.11.01), (h) 26497 (holding answer 11.1.02), (i) 26496 (holding answer 11.1.02), (j) 26496 (holding answer 11.1.02), (k) 24681 (tabled 17.12.01), (l) 24310 (tabled 17.12.01) and (m) 24326 (holding answer 8.1.02). [37144]

Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he will reply to Questions 24600, 24601, 24606 and 24576 tabled on 19 December 2001 and Questions 16847, 16848 and 16853 tabled on 21 November 2001. [39955]

Mr. Milburn: I have today replied to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, North and Fleetwood (Mrs. Humble) about delays which have come to light in handling parliamentary questions tabled for this Department.

I apologise for the delay in replying to these questions. A substantive reply will now be given as soon as possible.

Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many named day parliamentary written questions were tabled to his Department between 15 October and 5 November; and what proportion of these have received holding answers; [13308]

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Jacqui Smith [pursuant to her reply, 16 November 2001, c. 950W]: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has today replied to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, North and Fleetwood (Mrs. Humble) about delays which have come to light in handling parliamentary questions tabled for this Department.

In the light of the events described in my right hon. Friend's answer to my hon. Friend, I will let the hon. Member have a revised reply as soon as possible.

Mr. Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many (a) named day written questions and (b) ordinary written questions to his Department tabled before 30 November 2001 have yet to receive a substantive reply; [33708]

Ms Blears [pursuant to her reply, 5 February 2002, c. 923W]: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has today replied to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, North and Fleetwood (Mrs. Humble) about delays which have come to light in handling parliamentary questions tabled for this Department.

In the light of the events described in my right hon. Friend's answer to my hon. Friend, I will let the hon. Member have a revised reply as soon as possible.

General Practitioners

Derek Twigg: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of UK medical graduates entered general practice in the last five years. [23893]

Mr. Hutton: We do not hold information centrally on the percentage of UK medical graduates who enter general practice.

The numbers entering general practice registrar posts during the last five years is:

Number
19971,343
19981,446
19991,520
20001,659
20011,883

Tobacco Policy Team

Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when (a) he and (b) other Ministers in his Department met the smoking czar, Nikki Wade. [27361]

Yvette Cooper: As a member of the Department of Health's Tobacco Policy Team, Nikki Wade (now Griffiths) is responsible for the co-ordination of the local Alliance Network. Mrs. Griffiths is not and has never been given the title "smoking czar" by the Department of Health. This title was incorrectly attributed to Mrs. Griffiths in an article concerning the launch of the Alliance Network published by the Health Service Journal in November 2000.

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Body-building Drugs

Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have been treated in the NHS for illnesses caused by the overuse of body building drugs in each year since 1997. [28578]

Yvette Cooper: Data on the number of drug users presenting to services for the treatment of anabolic steroids are not held centrally.

Needle exchange schemes that distribute clean needles and syringes have reported they attract steroid users that attend for a supply of clean needles. However, there are no quantitative data available on this across England.

Health Authority Expenditure

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was (a) the total bill for salaries and expenses for board members, (b) the administrative operating costs and (c) the total annual budget in the latest year for which figures are available for each regional health authority in England. [30199]

Mr. Hutton: Regional health authorities were dissolved in 1996. The answer shown in the table provides expenditure by health authority area for (a) authority members' remuneration, (b) authority administration expenditure and (c) total expenditure for 2000–01.

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In many health authorities there are factors which distort expenditure figures for comparison purposes. These affect the answers given for part (c) and include:


Expenditure cannot therefore be reliably compared between health authorities.

Allocations per weighted head of population provide a much more reliable measure to identify differences between funding of health authorities.




Expenditure is taken from health authority and primary care trusts within each health authority area. The majority of General Dental Services expenditure is not included in the health authority or primary care trust accounts and is separately accounted for by the Dental Practice Board.

Health authorities and primary care trusts should account for their expenditure on a gross basis. This results in an element of double counting where one body acts as the main commissioner and is then reimbursed by other bodies. The effect of this double counting within the answer cannot be identified.

£000

Health authorityAuthority members' remunerationAdministration expenditure Total expenditure
Avon44119,620808,107
Barking and Havering4564,912313,841
Barnet3965,698317,222
Barnsley3383,830196,582
Bedfordshire39012,247405,606
Berkshire45413,619585,486
Bexley and Greenwich5516,216386,555
Birmingham74125,335891,730
Bradford1,0138,615387,767
Brent and Harrow2866,663400,214
Bromley4325,797284,221
Buckinghamshire55511,202460,821
Bury and Rochdale4493,964310,554
Calderdale and Kirklees3657,671448,263
Cambridgeshire1,34114,862518,689
Camden and Islington3746,094537,478
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly6396,351392,751
County Durham and Darlington4966,302495,693
Coventry3909,752265,956
Croydon5434,125303,260
Doncaster4897,127271,638
Dorset1,16814,706711,560
Dudley3653,629245,172
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow57016,225630,055
East and North Hertfordshire34122,112377,290
East Kent44010,729495,988
East Lancashire5839,881416,671
East London and the City43946,738715,153
East Riding and Hull4765,4984151,486
East Surrey4888,695365,566
East Sussex, Brighton and Hove4569,054647,275
Enfield and Haringey4576,275421,984
Gateshead and South Tyneside4093,849319,730
Gloucestershire3925,451411,598
Herefordshire6294,337120,606
Hillingdon7476,256186,751
Isle of Wight4702,284118,677
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster4865,975509,929
Kingston and Richmond7996,411278,725
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham50211,575803,339
Leeds6548,860647,260
Leicestershire66710,387664,488
Lincolnshire4137,027510,114
Liverpool5145,757479,438
Manchester82510,468469,117
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth92314,876574,703
Morecambe Bay4155,046424,583
Newcastle and North Tyneside4075,803425,973
Norfolk6068,925598,090
North and East Devon4157,172377,902
North and Mid Hampshire3626,289386,281
North Cheshire4413,558254,458
North Cumbria4399,368250,278
North Derbyshire4144,415271,232
North Essex1,22520,191679,568
North Nottinghamshire9519,002294,850
North Staffordshire5299,141375,815
North West Lancashire43811,011394,099
North Yorkshire5038,365564,991
Northamptonshire9887,729427,464
Northumberland3693,320273,023
Nottingham4716,873536,389
Oxfordshire3717,760446,085
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire43010,418404,181
Redbridge and Waltham Forest3774,239408,558
Rotherham3963,306197,645
Salford and Trafford4827,600407,129
Sandwell5186,443255,198
Sefton4605,746310,887
Sheffield48910,407547,408
Shropshire5154,451304,921
Solihull3153,059146,558
Somerset4196,973380,621
South and West Devon7066,751481,570
South Cheshire4707,253513,076
South Essex74815,421552,193
South Humber7875,969247,890
South Lancashire3743,186229,058
South Staffordshire4349,609406,554
Southampton and South West Hampshire6986,798407,875
Southern Derbyshire70515,432421,492
St. Helens and Knowsley3974,084282,894
Stockport3563,696212,670
Suffolk3927,479487,269
Sunderland3755,549251,410
Tees25413,547490,027
Wakefield49110,390286,738
Walsall3095,998205,300
Warwickshire3964,043366,166
West Hertfordshire47110,271401,807
West Kent64120,371700,901
West Pennine48414,989359,807
West Surrey4366,843477,760
West Sussex2698,946588,497
Wigan and Bolton4768,974450,150
Wiltshire4785,867448,801
Wirral4383,981279,106
Wolverhampton3844,392198,476
Worcestershire3575,534394,445
England total51,523859,04041,041,228

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