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Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients are waiting for NHS treatment for (a) a hip joint replacement, (b) a knee joint replacement, (c) coronary artery bypass grafts and (d) cardiac surgical procedures. [105857]
Mr. Hutton: Information on patients waiting for elective in-patient admissions is in most cases collected at consultant main specialty level, not by procedure. Information is collected on patients waiting for coronary artery bypass grafts, at 31 January 2003 this figure stood at 5,688.
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Patients waiting for hip and knee joint replacements are likely to be waiting under the trauma and orthopaedic specialty, coronary artery bypass grafts under cardiology and cardiac surgical procedures under cardiothoracic surgery. In line with NHS Plan targets, by 2005 waiting time for routine cardiac surgery will fall to a maximum of three months and waiting times for all other in-patient procedures will fall to a maximum of six months.
The table shows the number of patients waiting for elective in-patient admission for the above specialties.
Specialty | Total patients waiting |
---|---|
Trauma and orthopaedics | 268,036 |
Cardiology | 32,275 |
Cardiothoracic surgery | 10,426 |
Source:
Department of Health form KH07
Dr. Evan Harris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what definition of a ward is used in the national health service. [106601]
Mr. Hutton: The national health service data dictionary defines a ward as a group of beds with associated treatment facilities managed by a senior nurse.
Decisions about whether a specific bed grouping in a ward are made at a local level.
Mr. John Taylor: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department whether TNT Express Services with Prologis Ltd. will be responsible for record management and archiving services for census records after the contract for the Hayes PPP Project has been signed. [108533]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Any census record that has been accessioned (selected for permanent preservation) and is in the custody of The National Archives will not be part of the Hayes PPP project. The National Archives will only use the Hayes PPP project to store non-accessioned records (those not selected for permanent preservation).
Simon Hughes: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department how many children gave evidence as witnesses in criminal trials in the last year. [107305]
Yvette Cooper: The Court Service does not collect statistics on the number of children who give evidence as witnesses in criminal trials.
Huw Irranca-Davies: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if she will
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make a statement on (a) the development proposals for alternative sentences for those who genuinely cannot pay court fines, and (b) deductions from earnings and benefits for those who can pay court fines. [108654]
Yvette Cooper: The Home Office are looking at the feasibility of alternative sentences including unpaid work instead of fines in particular circumstances.
We are considering how the use of attachments against earnings and deductions from benefits can be made a more effective part of the arrangements for improving fine enforcement.
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what his estimate is of the expenditure of his Department on newspapers, magazines and periodicals in 2002. [106305]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The total estimated expenditure on newspapers, magazines and periodicals in 200203 was £78,520.
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what the running costs in 2002 were of (a) the Lord Chancellor's Department Ministers' private offices, separately identifying expenditure on staff, and (b) the Department. [106001]
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Ms Rosie Winterton: Gross administration costs (formerly known as running costs) for 200102, consistent with the audited departmental resource accounts, were as follows:
(a) Ministerial Private Offices (£000):
Figures for 200203 will be published in departmental resource accounts in due course.
Mr. Yeo: To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if she will make a statement on the (a) cost of and (b) number of visitors to each website operated by her Department and each agency and non-departmental public body for which her Department is responsible in each year since its establishment. [107640]
Yvette Cooper: The information requested set out in the following table.
(73) Figures not available prior to January 2003. Figures not available as page impressions or visits.
(74) The sites hosted by Cable and Wireless (200205) under a three year contract. The hosting element of this is £158,796 per annum for a total of eight sights.
(75) Figures not available prior to 200203.
(76) Figures not available prior to January 2001.
(77) The 2002 increase is partly because we had previously omitted impressions of .asp and .jsp pages, which make up a significant amount of the site.
(78) Figures not available prior to 200102.
(79) Figures not available prior to 200001.
(80) Figures not available prior to July 2002.
(81) Figures not available prior to June 2002.
(82) The various sites which existed within the Land Registry are now being consolidated into one site.
(83) Figures not available prior to 200203. Current website does not record statistics for unique visitors.
(84) Including development and operating cost.
(85) Estimate.
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