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Oldchurch Hospital
Mr. Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether Oldchurch Hospital in the London Borough of Havering has been inspected by the Commission for Health Improvement. [101985]
Mr. Hutton: Oldchurch Hospital has not been inspected by the Commission for Health Improvement.
Patient Advice and Liaison Services
Dr. Richard Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the money held by NHS trusts for patient advice and liaison services is ring-fenced; and how many paid employees are working for the patient advice and liaison service in each trust. [102150]
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Mr. Lammy: It is for local purchasers of treatment and care to decide upon the relative priorities of their allocations and assign funding accordingly. £10 million was included in the overall allocation for 2002–03, with the expectation that this would be used to support patient advice and liaison services (PALS) in national health service trusts and primary care trusts.
The Department does not hold details of the number of staff working within PALS. A recent mapping exercise completed in January 2003 showed that 94 per cent. of all trusts have established a PAL service.
Prison Healthcare
Dr. Evan Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what changes are planned to the structure of prison healthcare; and if he will make a statement. [103069]
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Jacqui Smith: On 25 September 2002, my right hon. Friends the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for Health announced that funding responsibility for prison health services in England was to be transferred from the Home Office to the Department of Health with effect from April 2003. The Prison Service funding currently used to provide health care for prisoners will be transferred to the Department of Health from April 2003.
This is the first step in a process aimed at devolving funding and commissioning responsibility for prison health services to primary care trusts (PCTs) by 1 April 2006. PCTs will then become responsible for securing all health services for prisoners in their areas. During the transitional period of the next three years, the majority of funding for prison health services will be passed back to the prison service for allocation through prison establishments to ensure continuity of services.
Psychiatric Readmissions
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many emergency psychiatric readmissions there were in each of the last five years for (a) under 16s and (b) over 65s; and what the rate of readmission was in each case. [102840]
Jacqui Smith: This information is not collected.
Schizophrenia
Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the National Service Framework for Adult Mental Health and its subsequent implementation guidelines for schizophrenia; who is responsible for the implementation; and if he will make a statement. [102686]
Jacqui Smith: The national service framework (NSF) for mental health, published in 1999, is a 10-year programme of reform and investment in mental health services and is being implemented in accordance with its targets and milestones.
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The implementation of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guideline on schizophrenia will build on the NSF and should form part of the service development plans for each local health community in England.
The priorities and planning framework for the national health service in England 2003–06 sets key targets for improvements in mental health services including compliance with relevant NICE technology appraisals and clinical guidelines.
Voting Qualifications (Mental Health)
Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health under what circumstances a person would be (a) eligible and (b) ineligible to vote under the provisions in the draft Mental Health Bill. [103147]
Jacqui Smith: There are no proposals in respect of voting rights in the Mental Health Bill. In fact there is no such provision in the Mental Health Act 1983.
My noble Friend the Lord Chancellor, is responsible for the policy on eligibility to vote under the Representation of the People Act 1983 (as amended by the Representation of the People Act 2000).
I understand that he is considering the implications of the proposals in the Mental Health Bill on his policy for enfranchisement.
Waiting Lists (Mid-Essex)
Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people are waiting for in-patient treatment in the mid-Essex Hospital Trust area. [102538]
Mr. Lammy [holding answer 13 March 2003]: There were 9,352 patients waiting for inpatient treatment at mid Essex Hospital Services National Health Services Trust at the end of January 2003.
- Source:
- DHSC monthly fast track figures.
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EDUCATION AND SKILLS
Advertising (Scotland)
Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much the Department spent on advertising in Scotland in each year since 1999 on (a) television, (b) newspapers, (c) radio, (d) magazines, (e) billboards and (f) sporting events. [102328]
Mr. Stephen Twigg: The Department has not targeted any of its advertising specifically in Scotland. However, for some media it is impossible to remove coverage in Scotland. These include atellite TV, online, women's magazines, TV listings magazines, youth magazines and some national press titles who do not have Scottish editions.
Due to the format in which advertising information is collected and held, it will not be possible to provide the information requested without incurring disproportionate cost. Information at the level of detail requested is not available, and where it is possible to disaggregate figures for advertising in Scotland, the information could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.
Asylum Seeker/Refugee Children
Mr. Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) asylum seeker and (b) refugee children there were in schools, broken down by education authority, in each academic year since 1997–98. [102296]
Mr. Stephen Twigg: It is not possible to say how many asylum seeker and refugee children there were in schools in each local education authority (LEA), for the period specified, because there is no requirement on LEAs to provide the Department with this information.
The most recent information available indicates that there are about 82,000 children from asylum seeking and refugee backgrounds in the UK. Nearly 63,000 of them are resident in Greater London where it is estimated that they comprise 6.04 per cent. of the total school population. Over 14,500 are resident in LEAs in the Home Office designated dispersal areas in the north east, north west, Yorkshire and the Humber, east and west Midlands and south west regions of England.
Mr. Damian Green: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much funding has been allocated for the education of (a) asylum seeker and (b) refugee children since 1997–98 in each education authority. [102297]
Mr. Stephen Twigg: It is not possible to say how much funding has been allocated to Local Education Authorities (LEAs) for the education of children from asylum seeking and refugee backgrounds for the period specified as no specific factors are used to take account of these pupils in the formula for calculating education formula spending shares. It is for LEAs to consider whether to include provision by including relevant factors in their funding formulae.
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Additional funding has been made available to LEAs supporting the children of asylum seekers dispersed to the Home Office designated cluster areas through the asylum seeker grant. The attached table shows how much funding has been allocated to these LEAs from 2000 to 2003.
From April 2003 this grant will be subsumed into the vulnerable children grant (worth £84 million) which will provide support for a range of vulnerable children including those from asylum seeking backgrounds. Funding to support all children, including those from asylum seeking and refugee backgrounds, with English as additional language requirements is available to all LEAs through the ethnic minority achievement grant (worth £155 million).
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