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Hearing Aids

Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to announce in which health authorities his Christmas Eve announcement on hearing aids will be implemented; and what criteria will determine his choice of health authority. [39815]

Jacqui Smith: We have invited expressions of interest by 8 March 2002 from all health communities not yet involved in the modernising hearing aid services project. Decisions will be made shortly thereafter, based on a

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number of criteria including geographical distribution, preparedness, and the support of the whole local health community.

Mr. Andrew Turner: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists in the Isle of Wight were trained at each Scottish dental school; and what proportion they represent of the total. [39816]

Ms Blears: Out of a total of 40 General Dental Service (GDS) dentists working in the Isle of Wight at the end of January 2002, 7 or 18 per cent. were trained in Scotland.

Of the seven dentists who were trained in Scotland, four were trained in Dundee, two in Glasgow, and one in Edinburgh.

Dentists include principals on an HA list, their assistants and vocational dental practitioners.

Health Expenditure

Mr. Tyrie: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of expenditure on health was spent in the last 12 months of patients' lives in the latest year for which figures are available. [39626]

Mr. Hutton: The information requested is not held centrally.

Asthma

Ms Oona King: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many children have been treated for asthma in each London borough, in each of the last five years. [39966]

Mr. Hutton: The figures shown represent the number of admissions to national health service trusts within the London health authorities, where the main diagnosis was asthma ¹ in the last five years. Figures represent children aged up to 14 years.

Number of admissions to NHS Hospitals in England where the main diagnosis was asthma⁽²⁴⁾ by health authority of treatment, (London health authorities); finished episodes; children aged 0–14, 1996–97 to 2000–01.

Health authority of treatment	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99	1999–2000	2000–01	All 5 years
QA2 Hillingdon	426	384	351	162	126	1,449
QA3 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster	523	480	357	196	255	1,811
QA4 Enfield and Haringey	403	292	273	257	224	1,449
QA5 Redbridge and Waltham Forest	509	395	286	226	222	1,638
QAA Bexley and Greenwich	395	306	288	211	204	1,404
QAC Bromley	173	166	120	142	122	723
QAD Croydon	252	271	215	154	173	1,065
QAG Kingston and Richmond	0	0	0	135	122	257
QAH Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham	967	796	722	645	552	3,682
QAJ Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth	775	539	553	473	378	2,718
QAP Barking and Havering	244	195	179	149	136	903
QAQ Barnet	175	220	224	232	206	1,057
QAR Brent and Harrow	272	219	198	213	125	1,027
QAT Camden and Islington	452	401	311	297	325	1,786
QAV Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow	395	423	532	428	398	2,176
QAW East London and The City	579	588	678	655	508	3,008
Total	6,540	5,675	5,287	4,575	4,076	26,153

⁽²⁴⁾ Asthma (ICD-10: 'J45' thru 'J46X'

Notes:

1. Admissions are defined as the first period of in-patient care under one consultant within one healthcare provider. Please note that admissions do not represent the number of in-patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the year.

2. The main diagnosis is the first of seven diagnosis fields in the Hospital Episode Statistics data set, and provides the main reason why the patient was in hospital.

3. Figures have not yet been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed).

Source:

Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), Department of Health

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NHS Catering

Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the applicants for the national franchise for NHS catering; and if he will name the successful applicant. [39776]

Ms Blears [holding answer 1 March 2002]: The initial exercise to examine his proposal identified that further work was required to fully explore the significant and complex issues which a franchise option raises. This work is continuing and, as previously noted any franchise arrangements will be subject to European Union regulations on open competition within the community. Since we have not yet reached this stage there are no applicants.

Quality Protects

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much each local authority responsible for implementing the Quality Protects programme under LAC(98)28 and subsequent circulars budgeted to spend in 2001–02; and what the (a) actual and (b) budgeted spend was in the previous two years. [39311]

Jacqui Smith [holding answer 4 March 2002]: The tables set out the quality protects grant allocations made to local authorities with social services functions for 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01 and 2001–02, together with the actual amounts spent by each authority on implementing the programme in the first three years.

Quality Protects—1998–99£

	Grant allocation	Expenditure incurred
Barking and Dagenham	31,000.00	38,214.00
Barnet	32,500.00	25,347.00
Barnsley	32,500.00	35,296.00
Bath and North East Somerset	32,500.00	40,299.00
Bedfordshire	32,500.00	32,674.41
Bexley	32,500.00	32,848.00
Birmingham	32,500.00	32,500.00
Blackburn with Darwen	32,500.00	33,897.00
Blackpool	32,500.00	31,637.00
Bolton	32,500.00	32,691.41
Bournemouth	32,500.00	14,154.00
Bracknell Forest	32,500.00	32,500.00
Bradford	32,500.00	31,790.00
Brent	32,500.00	34,466.75
Brighton and Hove	32,500.00	32,943.00
Bristol	32,500.00	34,494.12
Bromley	32,500.00	32,747.00
Buckinghamshire	32,500.00	45,153.00
Bury	32,500.00	49.807.00
Calderdale	32,500.00	32,934.38
Cambridgeshire	32,500.00	35,680.00
Camden	32,500.00	34,825.00
Cheshire	32,500.00	32,500.00
City of London	3,000.00	5,000.00
Cornwall	32,500.00	45,563.00
Coventry	32,500.00	33,213.00
Croydon	32,500.00	34,973.00
Cumbria	32,500.00	33,110.00
Darlington	32,500.00	34,242.00
Derby	32,500.00	32,980.00
Derbyshire	32,500.00	32,816.00
Devon	32,500.00	32,500.00
Doncaster	32,500.00	25,544.89
Dorset	32,500.00	34,502.00
Dudley	32,500.00	34,544.00
Durham	32,500.00	34,542.42
Ealing	32,500.00	32,500.00
East Riding of Yorkshire	32,500.00	35,820.00
East Sussex	32,500.00	32,500.00
Enfield	32,500.00	32,979.00
Essex	32,500.00	32,500.00
Gateshead	32,500.00	31,731.00
Gloucestershire	32,500.00	32,100.00
Greenwich	32,500.00	32,756.00
Hackney	32,500.00	34,369.22
Halton	32,500.00	35,696.82
Hammersmith and Fulham	32,500.00	32,831.37
Hampshire	32,141.00	33,035.18
Haringey	32,500.00	37,046.00
Harrow	32,500.00	32,584.00
Hartlepool	32,500.00	24,801.00
Havering	32,500.00	32,774.00
Herefordshire	32,500.00	37,345.14
Hertfordshire	32,500.00	49,257.00
Hillingdon	32,500.00	9,531.95
Hounslow	32,500.00	48,093.00
Isle of Wight	32,500.00	32,510.00
Isles of Scilly	3,000.00	3,000.00
Islington	32,500.00	30,435.00
Kensington and Chelsea	32,500.00	32,500.00
Kent	32,500.00	32,500.00
Kingston upon Hull	32,500.00	32,500.00
Kingston upon Thames	32,500.00	32,633.62
Kirklees	32,500.00	30,062.64
Knowsley	32,500.00	28,347.00
Lambeth	32,500.00	32,885.00
Lancashire	32,500.00	39,783.00
Leeds	32,500.00	32,500.00
Leicester City	32,500.00	34,424.00
Leicestershire	32,500.00	33,871.57
Lewisham	32,500.00	33,754.00
Lincolnshire	32,500.00	32,653.16
Liverpool	32,500.00	34,541.00
Luton	32,500.00	32,561.72
Manchester	32,500.00	32,500.00
Medway	32,500.00	32,500.00
Merton	32,500.00	28,252.00
Middlesbrough	32,500.00	32,753.00
Milton Keynes	32,500.00	33,221.00
Newcastle upon Tyne	32,500.00	33,812.36
Newham	32,500.00	32,804.00
Norfolk	32,500.00	42,691.00
North East Lincolnshire	32,500.00	31,225.14
North Lincolnshire	32,500.00	35,322.31
North Somerset	32,500.00	32,544.00
North Tyneside	32,500.00	33,095.00
North Yorkshire	32,500.00	27,199.00
Northamptonshire	32,500.00	32,500.00
Northumberland	32,500.00	34,072.00
Nottingham	32,500.00	38,107.00
Nottinghamshire	32,500.00	38,123.00
Oldham	32,500.00	38,652.00
Oxfordshire	32,500.00	32,500.00
Peterborough	32,500.00	32,464.00
Plymouth	32,500.00	32,160.00
Poole	32,500.00	32,500.00
Portsmouth	32,500.00	29,616.00
Reading	32,500.00	35,109.00
Redbridge	32,500.00	32,717.43
Redcar and Cleveland	32,500.00	32,613.09
Richmond upon Thames	32,500.00	33,316.00
Rochdale	32,400.00	32,508.00
Rotherham	32,500.00	32,529.00
Rutland	32,500.00	33,195.00
Salford	32,500.00	23,827.00
Sandwell	32,500.00	32,266.00
Sefton	32,500.00	32,500.00
Sheffield	32,500.00	25,662.47
Shropshire	32,500.00	29,299.77
Slough	32,500.00	16,867.27
Solihull	32,500.00	34,505.00
Somerset	32,500.00	32,500.00
South Gloucestershire	32,500.00	34,734.00
South Tyneside	32,500.00	23,052.00
Southampton	32,500.00	33,189.39
Southend-on-Sea	32,500.00	40,515.00
Southwark	32,500.00	34,360.00
St. Helens	32,500.00	30,968.00
Staffordshire	32,500.00	34,085.00
Stockport	32,500.00	34,713.00
Stockton-on-Tees	32,500.00	35,342.00
Stoke-on-Trent	32,500.00	35,677.67
Suffolk	32,500.00	38,950.89
Sunderland	32,500.00	30,181.00
Surrey	32,500.00	54,612.00
Sutton	32,500.00	32,752.00
Swindon	32,500.00	32,503.00
Tameside	32,500.00	36,302.00
Telford and the Wrekin	32,500.00	32,500.00
Thurrock	32,500.00	34,860.00
Torbay	32,500.00	32,613.00
Tower Hamlets	32,500.00	42,513.71
Trafford	32,500.00	32,934.00
Wakefield	32,500.00	33,535.00
Walsall	32,500.00	32,185.00
Waltham Forest	32,500.00	47,143.00
Wandsworth	32,500.00	50,533.00
Warrington	32,500.00	34,160.00
Warwickshire	32,500.00	32,178.06
West Berkshire	32,500.00	34,500.00
West Sussex	32,500.00	33,210.00
Westminster	32,500.00	28,139.00
Wigan	32,500.00	32,841.00
Wiltshire	32,500.00	33,783.00
Windsor and Maidenhead	32,500.00	34,324.00
Wirral	32,500.00	35,055.00
Wokingham	32,500.00	34,954.00
Wolverhampton	32,500.00	20,200.00
Worcestershire	32,500.00	32,500.00
York	32,500.00	32,508.00

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Quality Protects—1999–2000£

	Grant allocation	Expenditure incurred
Barking and Dagenham	378,953.00	379,302.00
Barnet	540,110.00	504,748.00
Barnsley	278,096.00	278,096.00
Bath and North East Somerset	154,973.00	184,663.00
Bedfordshire	356,687.00	366,929.00
Bexley	280,521.00	291,000.00
Birmingham	2,591,786.00	2,898,652.28
Blackburn with Darwen	273,182.00	262,138.00
Blackpool	236,835.00	238,381.00
Bolton	396,975.00	397,000.00
Bournemouth	229,845.00	231,331.00
Bracknell Forest	117,522.00	132,308.00
Bradford	884,401.00	900,285.62
Brent	976,211.00	985,653.00
Brighton and Hove	429,491.00	429,470.00
Bristol	713,666.00	719,140.39
Bromley	358,039.00	358,851.00
Buckinghamshire	387,837.00	388,279.00
Bury	219,510.00	232,419.00
Calderdale	259,611.00	276,897.00
Cambridgeshire	455,000.00	455,000.00
Camden	876,424.00	879,962.00
Cheshire	592,040.00	592,040.00
City of London	16,286.00	11,130.00
Cornwall	488,072.00	488,000.00
Coventry	541,941.00	542,000.00
Croydon	717,253.00	812,613.00
Cumbria	444,301.00	464,002.00
Darlington	132,436.00	140,870.00
Derby	386,441.00	386,838.00
Derbyshire	604,045.00	735,009.00
Devon	624,424.00	624,423.00
Doncaster	395,605.00	408,032.91
Dorset	302,431.00	302,777.00
Dudley	324,165.00	350,641.00
Durham	599,079.00	413,704.00
Ealing	838,296.00	939,685.00
East Riding of Yorkshire	215,630.00	202,183.00
East Sussex	540,272.00	540,360.00
Enfield	522,279.00	522,718.00
Essex	1,268,060.00	1,281,958.00
Gateshead	297,693.00	305,222.00
Gloucestershire	523,690.00	422,352.00
Greenwich	760,609.00	1,111,456.00
Hackney	1,227,189.00	1,187,987.47
Halton	226,711.00	226,711.00
Hammersmith and Fulham	698,515.00	713,096.63
Hampshire	1,075,112.00	1,399,134.00
Haringey	987,351.00	935,986.00
Harrow	305,314.00	313,712.00
Hartlepool	147,244.00	147,261.00
Havering	252,220.00	253,926.50
Herefordshire	153,445.00	154,712.08
Hertfordshire	1,066,840.00	1,096,700.00
Hillingdon	380,758.00	459,984.00
Hounslow	514,769.00	529,483.00
Isle of Wight	150,553.00	146,269.00
Isles of Scilly	12,261.00	13,160.00
Islington	1,023,002.00	1,043,385.00
Kensington and Chelsea	560,122.00	560,122.00
Kent	1,458,706.00	1,458,706.00
Kingston upon Hull	499,512.00	502,223.00
Kingston upon Thames	174,194.00	174,194.00
Kirklees	547,178.00	551,729.00
Knowsley	422,471.00	432,643.00
Lambeth	1,573,817.00	1,590,658.00
Lancashire	1,365,835.00	1,474,651.00
Leeds	1,048,900.00	1,276,450.00
Leicester City	686,801.00	688,298.00
Leicestershire	411,678.00	461,898.00
Lewisham	1,111,262.00	1,111,262.00
Lincolnshire	565,509.00	579,047.00
Liverpool	1,149,943.00	1,150,061.00
Luton	359,059.00	380,737.35
Manchester	1,394,058.00	1,394,058.00
Medway	299,593.00	300,103.00
Merton	323,737.00	324,354.00
Middlesbrough	313,474.00	317,586.00
Milton Keynes	293,645.00	186,105.82
Newcastle upon Tyne	539,359.00	793,068.00
Newham	1,070,696.00	1,072,986.00
Norfolk	722,580.00	760,075.72
North East Lincolnshire	224,251.00	225,105.00
North Lincolnshire	158,955.00	166,489.81
North Somerset	151,981.00	158,211.00
North Tyneside	278,868.00	278,868.00
North Yorkshire	438,571.00	439,000.00
Northamptonshire	659,698.00	660,000.00
Northumberland	296,640.00	262,759.00
Nottingham	701,493.00	703,983.00
Nottinghamshire	712,558.00	713,150.00
Oldham	374,513.00	375,010.00
Oxfordshire	586,043.00	544,518.94
Peterborough	246,202.00	248,789.00
Plymouth	438,917.00	436,756.00
Poole	140,267.00	141,318.00
Portsmouth	345,827.00	345,827.00
Reading	254,616.00	249,277.00
Redbridge	375,752.00	258,973.00
Redcar and Cleveland	222,123.00	223,894.91
Richmond upon Thames	199,650.00	192,684.00
Rochdale	371,504.00	391,712.00
Rotherham	327,544.00	346,518.00
Rutland	32,573.00	33,178.00
Salford	425,589.00	417,187.00
Sandwell	544,269.00	544,035.00
Sefton	411,861.00	394,443.00
Sheffield	761,467.00	811,922.00
Shropshire	209,125.00	209,125.00
Slough	250,111.00	250,168.00
Solihull	223,969.00	212,642.00
Somerset	436,982.00	446,236.00
South Gloucestershire	178,281.00	186,677.00
South Tyneside	275,020.00	275,020.00
Southampton	411,525.00	439,783.00
Southend-on-Sea	259,093.00	260,576.00
Southwark	1,269,129.00	1,244,778.00
St. Helens	233,469.00	244,736.00
Staffordshire	674,749.00	695,807.00
Stockport	294,530.00	294,530.00
Stockton-on-Tees	267,578.00	267,578.00
Stoke-on-Trent	347,894.00	357,048.00
Suffolk	602,421.00	614,941.00
Sunderland	497,704.00	588,099.00
Surrey	868,583.00	956,223.00
Sutton	249,730.00	249,730.00
Swindon	201,610.00	200,214.00
Tameside	314,349.00	319,189.00
Telford and the Wrekin	206,945.00	208,529.02
Thurrock	194,469.00	196,586.84
Torbay	174,772.00	174,648.00
Tower Hamlets	1,034,484.00	1,008,313.81
Trafford	289,088.00	289,088.00
Wakefield	367,119.00	367,119.00
Walsall	462,560.00	462,560.00
Waltham Forest	669,924.00	770,139.00
Wandsworth	866,095.00	1,115,666.00
Warrington	194,551.00	250,672.65
Warwickshire	426,028.00	475,478.00
West Berkshire	112,417.00	116,624.00
West Sussex	676,043.00	737,735.00
Westminster	755,373.00	752,691.00
Wigan	360,316.00	337,962.00
Wiltshire	357,641.00	362,613.00
Windsor and Maidenhead	123,163.00	130,990.00
Wirral	542,273.00	716,388.00
Wokingham	85,864.00	85,864.00
Wolverhampton	470,718.00	510,181.00
Worcestershire	493,543.00	493,543.00
York	164,894.00	165,715.00

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Quality Protects—2000–01£

	Grant allocation	Expenditure incurred
Barking and Dagenham	608,000.00	611,455.00
Barnet	861,000.00	893,098.00
Barnsley	440,000.00	440,000.00
Bath and North East Somerset	243,000.00	280,140.00
Bedfordshire	560,000.00	560,990.02
Bexley	443,000.00	453,000.00
Birmingham	4,097,000.00	5,218,092.00
Blackburn with Darwen	430,000.00	430,000.00
Blackpool	379,000.00	385,893.00
Bolton	625,000.00	643,729.00
Bournemouth	365,000.00	367,974.00
Bracknell Forest	182,000.00	181,975.00
Bradford	1,398,000.00	1,433,280.00
Brent	1,540,000.00	1,915,281.00
Brighton and Hove	684,979.00	693,342.00
Bristol	1,134,000.00	1,260,884.00
Bromley	563,000.00	563,313.00
Buckinghamshire	609,000.00	609,033.00
Bury	351,000.00	364,262.00
Calderdale	410,000.00	417,905.00
Cambridgeshire	718,000.00	766,472.00
Camden	1,404,000.00	1,406,438.00
Cheshire	930,000.00	950,552.00
City of London	26,000.00	29,143.17
Cornwall	764,000.00	942,122.00
Coventry	853,000.00	972,269.00
Croydon	1,140,000.00	1,147,234.00
Cumbria	706,000.00	922,012.00
Darlington	212,000.00	219,974.00
Derby	612,000.00	612,937.00
Derbyshire	957,000.00	1,673,176.00
Devon	986,000.00	985,999.00
Doncaster	618,000.00	623,050.55
Dorset	479,000.00	492,973.00
Dudley	507,000.00	507,000.00
Durham	951,000.00	1,057,617.00
Ealing	1,334,000.00	1,334,000.00
East Riding of Yorkshire	344,000.00	333,481.00
East Sussex	857,000.00	864,520.00
Enfield	822,000.00	822,650.00
Essex	1,990,000.00	2,116,430.00
Gateshead	470,000.00	496,699.00
Gloucestershire	821,000.00	821,000.00
Greenwich	1,211,000.00	1,211,000.00
Hackney	1,954,000.00	1,955,166.00
Halton	357,000.00	359,638.00
Hammersmith and Fulham	1,124,000.00	1,142,347.00
Hampshire	1,687,000.00	2,042,846.49
Haringey	1,572,000.00	1,582,662.00
Harrow	485,000.00	486,752.00
Hartlepool	234,000.00	235,458.00
Havering	395,000.00	396,171.90
Herefordshire	244,000.00	247,263.23
Hertfordshire	1,674,000.00	1,676,854.00
Hillingdon	605,000.00	646,175.00
Hounslow	815,000.00	815,000.00
Isle of Wight	241,000.00	244,593.00
Isles of Scilly	14,000.00	34,838.00
Islington	1,648,000.00	1,647,993.00
Kensington and Chelsea	916,000.00	916,000.00
Kent	2,302,000.00	2,764,100.00
Kingston upon Hull	795,000.00	796,810.00
Kingston upon Thames	277,000.00	277,000.00
Kirklees	861,000.00	901,324.26
Knowsley	669,000.00	699,825.00
Lambeth	2,525,000.00	2,601,897.00
Lancashire	2,167,000.00	2,642,885.00
Leeds	1,661,000.00	1,679,286.00
Leicester City	1,082,000.00	1,082,000.00
Leicestershire	646,000.00	710,468.00
Lewisham	1,768,000.00	1,768,000.00
Lincolnshire	890,000.00	930,627.00
Liverpool	1,834,000.00	1,914,036.00
Luton	561,000.00	567,250.00
Manchester	2,221,000.00	2,221,000.00
Medway	470,000.00	470,000.00
Merton	512,000.00	502,405.00
Middlesbrough	495,000.00	502,598.00
Milton Keynes	457,000.00	456,173.42
Newcastle upon Tyne	854,000.00	996,393.06
Newham	1,701,000.00	1,843,266.00
Norfolk	1,149,000.00	1,180,423.57
North East Lincolnshire	356,000.00	355,976.00
North Lincolnshire	250,000.00	251,764.09
North Somerset	238,000.00	238,981.00
North Tyneside	443,000.00	443,000.00
North Yorkshire	700,000.00	707,999.00
Northamptonshire	1,035,000.00	1,035,000.00
Northumberland	467,000.00	467,220.00
Nottingham	1,108,000.00	1,108,000.00
Nottinghamshire	1,128,000.00	2,901,208.00
Oldham	588,000.00	601,020.00
Oxfordshire	925,000.00	939,298.21
Peterborough	387,000.00	388,193.00
Plymouth	694,179.00	694,179.00
Poole	218,000.00	218,000.00
Portsmouth	544,000.00	592,575.00
Reading	403,000.00	417,917.00
Redbridge	593,000.00	758,776.00
Redcar and Cleveland	346,000.00	346,247.50
Richmond upon Thames	319,000.00	319,838.00
Rochdale	589,000.00	588,976.00
Rotherham	512,000.00	512,294.00
Rutland	45,000.00	45,723.00
Salford	669,000.00	680,518.00
Sandwell	849,000.00	849,000.00
Sefton	654,000.00	670,780.00
Sheffield	1,207,000.00	1,225,668.00
Shropshire	328,000.00	333,060.00
Slough	389,000.00	389,000.00
Solihull	350,000.00	347,096.00
Somerset	688,000.00	759,562.00
South Gloucestershire	278,000.00	303,963.00
South Tyneside	435,000.00	435,000.00
Southampton	651,000.00	663,079.00
Southend-on-Sea	411,000.00	412,465.00
Southwark	2,025,000.00	2,066,349.00
St. Helens	369,000.00	391,049.00
Staffordshire	1,059,000.00	1,189,904.00
Stockport	467,000.00	524,336.00
Stockton-on-Tees	423,000.00	469,565.00
Stoke-on-Trent	555,000.00	560,646.83
Suffolk	951,000.00	961,689.00
Sunderland	779,000.00	862,870.00
Surrey	1,358,000.00	1,371,619.00
Sutton	392,000.00	392,000.00
Swindon	319,045.00	374,704.00
Tameside	498,000.00	602,510.00
Telford and the Wrekin	329,000.00	329,023.00
Thurrock	309,000.00	307,426.09
Torbay	278,000.00	282,249.00
Tower Hamlets	1,633,000.00	1,631,601.00
Trafford	455,000.00	473,152.00
Wakefield	581,000.00	581,304.00
Walsall	726,000.00	734,203.00
Waltham Forest	1,056,000.00	1,093,252.00
Wandsworth	1,374,000.00	1,783,815.00
Warrington	306,000.00	377,608.84
Warwickshire	669,000.00	727,910.00
West Berkshire	176,000.00	176,003.00
West Sussex	1,062,000.00	1,501,822.00
Westminster	1,234,000.00	1,237,813.00
Wigan	566,000.00	612,741.00
Wiltshire	564,000.00	610,375.00
Windsor and Maidenhead	193,000.00	209,907.00
Wirral	858,000.00	857,313.67
Wokingham	133,000.00	137,081.00
Wolverhampton	737,000.00	845,092.00
Worcestershire	779,000.00	779,000.00
York	261,000.00	267,779.00

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Quality Protects—2001–02£

	Grant allocation
Barking and Dagenham	1,632,988.00
Barnet	2,057,315.00
Barnsley	1,142,954.00
Bath and North East Somerset	593,912.00
Bedfordshire	1,430,673.00
Bexley	1,198,185.00
Birmingham	9,655,311.00
Blackburn with Darwen	1,065,518.00
Blackpool	978,614.00
Bolton	1,535,893.00
Bournemouth	904,237.00
Bracknell Forest	455,457.00
Bradford	3,363,661.00
Brent	3,430,645.00
Brighton and Hove	1,677,490.00
Bristol	2,777,929.00
Bromley	1,470,905.00
Buckinghamshire	1,502,091.00
Bury	907,997.00
Calderdale	1,025,748.00
Cambridgeshire	1,761,439.00
Camden	3,356,252.00
Cheshire	2,304,651.00
City of London	82,563.00
Cornwall	1,917,024.00
Coventry	2,069,504.00
Croydon	2,767,307.00
Cumbria	1,781,595.00
Darlington	514,503.00
Derby	1,521,252.00
Derbyshire	2,475,919.00
Devon	2,470,550.00
Doncaster	1,566,459.00
Dorset	1,190,383.00
Dudley	1,295,132.00
Durham	2,426,324.00
Ealing	3,215,189.00
East Riding of Yorkshire	863,087.00
East Sussex	2,169,433.00
Enfield	2,087,477.00
Essex	5,023,904.00
Gateshead	1,226,995.00
Gloucestershire	2,043,753.00
Greenwich	3,017,843.00
Hackney	4,503,350.00
Halton	889,886.00
Hammersmith and Fulham	2,864,562.00
Hampshire	4,180,823.00
Haringey	3,705,070.00
Harrow	1,156,863.00
Hartlepool	580,453.00
Havering	1,008,188.00
Herefordshire	605,137.00
Hertfordshire	4,090,242.00
Hillingdon	1,609,311.00
Hounslow	1,943,464.00
Isle of Wight	631,612.00
Isles of Scilly	16,703.00
Islington	3,992,342.00
Kensington and Chelsea	2,379,035.00
Kent	5,974,305.00
Kingston upon Hull	1,980,321.00
Kingston upon Thames	763,996.00
Kirklees	2,061,623.00
Knowsley	1,664,574.00
Lambeth	6,005,303.00
Lancashire	5,433,080.00
Leeds	4,152,471.00
Leicester City	2,475,945.00
Leicestershire	1,605,199.00
Lewisham	4,196,109.00
Lincolnshire	2,162,767.00
Liverpool	4,573,026.00
Luton	1,356,539.00
Manchester	5,280,917.00
Medway	1,221,478.00
Merton	1,293,921.00
Middlesbrough	1,190,012.00
Milton Keynes	1,178,019.00
Newcastle upon Tyne	2,154,096.00
Newham	3,931,866.00
Norfolk	2,924,401.00
North East Lincolnshire	902,525.00
North Lincolnshire	644,589.00
North Somerset	611,398.00
North Tyneside	1,163,286.00
North Yorkshire	1,702,211.00
Northamptonshire	2,624,204.00
Northumberland	1,232,552.00
Nottingham	2,657,610.00
Nottinghamshire	2,768,099.00
Oldham	1,479,374.00
Oxfordshire	2,225,509.00
Peterborough	997,387.00
Plymouth	1,679,210.00
Poole	574,483.00
Portsmouth	1,342,536.00
Reading	980,588.00
Redbridge	1,427,212.00
Redcar and Cleveland	833,365.00
Richmond upon Thames	799,982.00
Rochdale	1,450,451.00
Rotherham	1,315,989.00
Rutland	93,367.00
Salford	1,721,616.00
Sandwell	2,117,629.00
Sefton	1,629,565.00
Sheffield	2,998,839.00
Shropshire	805,546.00
Slough	945,849.00
Solihull	905,895.00
Somerset	1,721,509.00
South Gloucestershire	738,464.00
South Tyneside	1,130,676.00
Southampton	1,598,346.00
Southend-on-Sea	1,098,103.00
Southwark	5,071,690.00
St. Helens	968,376.00
Staffordshire	2,680,547.00
Stockport	1,206,047.00
Stockton-on-Tees	1,048,730.00
Stoke-on-Trent	1,501,346.00
Suffolk	2,318,876.00
Sunderland	1,924,230.00
Surrey	3,409,520.00
Sutton	978,215.00
Swindon	826,353.00
Tameside	1,253,245.00
Telford and the Wrekin	836,362.00
Thurrock	812,839.00
Torbay	740,053.00
Tower Hamlets	3,937,273.00
Trafford	1,085,639.00
Wakefield	1,564,260.00
Walsall	1,710,437.00
Waltham Forest	2,548,677.00
Wandsworth	3,354,460.00
Warrington	766,475.00
Warwickshire	1,699,102.00
West Berkshire	412,229.00
West Sussex	2,681,810.00
Westminster	3,201,093.00
Wigan	1,437,294.00
Wiltshire	1,394,412.00
Windsor and Maidenhead	494,625.00
Wirral	2,141,008.00
Wokingham	332,082.00
Wolverhampton	1,815,910.00
Worcestershire	1,975,395.00
York	630,353.00

Note:

The figures for expenditure for each local authority for the years 1998–99 and 1999–2000 are wholly based on audit forms provided by the authority's chief finance officer and an auditor appointed by the Audit Commission. The figures for 2000–01 include a small number of figures from pre-audit certificates and may therefore be subject to change.

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Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what arrangements (a) his Department and (b) local authorities have made to publicise the reporting and referral system established in line with the quality protects programme under LAC(98)28 and subsequent circulars; [39310]

(2) how many local authorities (a) have full compliant policies and procedures, (b) have draft policies and procedures and (c) are not compliant with the protection of children guidance, quality protects programme under LAC(98)28 and subsequent circulars. [39309]

Jacqui Smith [holding answer 4 March 2002]: Local Authority Circular (98)28 gave councils and their partners details of the quality protects programme. It explained that the Department would be publishing further guidance covering issues such as reporting and referral systems and child protection procedures.

The Department published the "Framework for Assessment of Children in Need and their Families" in April 2000. It has undertaken an extensive programme of dissemination at local, regional and national levels. The quality protects regional development workers have played a key role in ensuring agencies know about and are implementing the assessment framework. The Department has worked with local councils and consulted software suppliers to develop and publish "Core Information Requirements" for children's social services to help improve councils' capability in managing information.

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The Department held a series of regional roadshows in the autumn of 1999 on the final draft version of the "Working Together to Safeguard Children" guidance, following which 100,000 copies of the revised guidance were distributed to child protection professionals through the area child protection committee network. The social services inspectorate is currently participating, together with other statutory inspectorates, in a series of themed inspections looking at the effectiveness of safeguards for children across all relevant statutory agencies.

Developments and best practice under quality protects are publicised in a number of ways, including the quality protects newsletter and website www.doh.gov.uk/ qualityprotects.

Local authorities' progress in implementing quality protects is monitored through a number of mechanisms, including inspections, position statements and annual management action plans. In their autumn position statements, 83 per cent. of councils stated that they had implemented the assessment framework by 30 September 2001. A further 13 per cent. expect to have done so by 1 April 2002 at the latest. The remaining six authorities expect to implement during 2002–03.

Local authorities submitted their fourth quality protects management action plans in January 2002. These set out their progress in and plans for delivering the quality protects programme. The social services inspectorate is currently assessing these plans. We will be publishing an overview report of the plans and their evaluation later in the year. Copies of the national overview reports for the previous three years' management action plans are available in the Library.

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