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Hospital Building Programme
Mr. Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the amount of expenditure on the hospital building programme in each of the last five available years, excluding PFI contracts. [110796]
Mr. Hutton: The Department does not separately identify expenditure on the hospital building programme. The Department does collect information on total capital expenditure in the National Health Service. This is shown in the table below.
| Financial Year | Total (£000) |
|---|---|
| 1997–1998 | 1,153,298 |
| 1998–1999 | 1,114,241 |
| 1999–2000 | 1,635,032 |
| 2000–2001 | 1,744,304 |
| 2001–2002 | 1,969,080 |
| Total: | 7,615,955 |
Source:NHS Trust summarisation schedules 1997–98 to 2001–02—net book value of additional purchased capital acquisitions by NHS Trusts.
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Hospital Gardens
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospital trusts contract out (a) partly and (b) completely gardening work on their estates. [109893]
Mr. Hutton [holding answer 28 April 2003]: This information is not collected centrally. The provision of gardening services is a matter for individual National Health Service trusts.
Inventures Disposals
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether Southlands Hospital land in Shoreham has been included in the bulk sale of properties in the Inventures disposals; what (a) price and (b) terms will be secured by its sale; and whether it will be sold with planning permission. [109894]
Mr. Hutton [holding answer 28 April 2003]: The surplus parts of the hospital have been included in the portfolios of properties that will form the basis of the proposed real estate partnership with the private sector. Miller/Bank of Scotland have been chosen as preferred partner. The price and other terms of the sale are commercially confidential.
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the percentage of the inventures disposals which will be sold without planning permission; and if he will make a statement on his policy on the sale of NHS property without planning permission. [109895]
Mr. Hutton [holding answer 28 April 2003]: Details of which properties will be the subject of the proposed real estate partnership with Miller/Bank of Scotland are still being finalised.
In selling National Health Service property, the principles of Government Accounting and the Department of Health's own guidance, Estatecode, are followed.
Looked After Children
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions he has had with (a) local authorities and (b) the Independent Schools Council regarding placing looked after children in boarding schools. [110935]
Jacqui Smith: My right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education and Skills recently met theIndependent Schools Council to discuss a range of issues, including the placement of looked after children in boarding schools. This issue has not arisen to date during my regular discussions with him or in discussions with local authority representatives.
Meningitis C Vaccine
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the take-up of the meningitis C vaccine by targeted groups. [105900]
Ms Blears [holding answer 1 April 2003]: Information on uptake of routine childhood vaccines are collected through the COVER (define) programme. These
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data are published on a quarterly basis in the "Communicable Disease Report (CDR) Weekly" and are available at www.phls.org.uk/publications/cdr/index.html
The most recent quarterly uptake figures—October to December 2002—for the meningitis C conjugate vaccine for England at one and two years of age were 90 per cent. and 92 per cent. respectively.
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Information on the uptake rate of the meningitis C conjugate vaccine in children and adults during the meningitis C campaign was published last year in "Communicable Disease and Public Health"—September 2002, vol. 5 (3): 177–264. The percentage of children and adults immunised through this programme is shown in the table. There is no information on uptake in adults aged over 18 years of age.
A copy of this paper is available in the Library.
| Age | Birth cohort | Approximate date of vaccination | Total eligible | Coverage (percentage) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| <12 months | 11 January 1999 to 28 July 1999 | January 2000 | 283,198 | 80.4 |
| 1-<2 years | 11 January 1998 to 10 January 1999 | January 2000 | 526,802 | 83.8 |
| 2–5 years | 1 September 1994 to 10 January 1998 | March 2000 | 1,810,884 | 75.6 |
| School year (age inferred) | ||||
| 1 (5–6) | 1 September 1993 to 31 August 1994 | September 2000 | 517,088 | 86.3 |
| 2 (6–7) | 1 September 1992 to 31 August 1993 | September 2000 | 525,151 | 86.7 |
| 3 (7–8) | 1 September 1991 to 31 August 1992 | September 2000 | 545,352 | 87.4 |
| 4 (8–9) | 1 September 1990 to 31 August 1991 | September 2000 | 552,993 | 87.6 |
| 5 (9–10) | 1 September 1989 to 31 August 1990 | May 2000 | 549,518 | 89.0 |
| 6 (10–11) | 1 September 1988 to 31 August 1989 | May 2000 | 542,557 | 88.0 |
| 7 (11–12) | 1 September 1987 to 31 August 1988 | March 2000 | 556,661 | 87.9 |
| 8 (12–13) | 1 September 1986 to 31 August 1987 | March 2000 | 540,878 | 87.2 |
| 9 (13–14) | 1 September 1985 to 31 August 1986 | March 2000 | 530,547 | 85.5 |
| 10 (14–15) | 1 September 1984 to 31 August 1985 | March 2000 | 519,446 | 83.0 |
| 11 (15–16) | 1 September 1983 to 31 August 1984 | November 1999 | 484,751 | 83.7 |
| 12 (16–17) | 1 September 1982 to 31 August 1983 | November 1999 | 300,429 | 70.3 |
| 13 (17–18) | 1 September 1981 to 31 August 1982 | November 1999 | 265,423 | 60.3 |
| All school years | — | — | 6,532,229 | 84.6 |
| (6)— | — | — | 767,431 | 43.0 |
(6) 15–17 y/o not in education. Only 32/155 trusts were able to provide vaccine coverage outside of school. It was assumed that this was representative and the number of 15 to 17-year-olds not in education was equal to the ONS population estimate for this age group minus denominator data supplied by health trusts.
Mental Health Accommodation
Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether all mental health hospital accommodation in Hampshire meets the criteria for the targets set in February 1998 regarding the safety, privacy and dignity of patients; and if he will make a statement. [110338]
Ms Blears: All mental health hospital accommodation in Hampshire is fully compliant with the criteria set to protect the safety, privacy and dignity of patients.
NHS Dentistry
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients were registered with NHS dentists in each of the last 10 years in the area covered by the Cotswold and Vale PCT. [109403]
Ms Blears: At 30 September 2002, 70,000 patients were registered with a general dental service (GDS) dentist in Cotswold and Vale Primary Care Trust. For the period of the last 10 years, registration data is available for the Gloucestershire Health Authority and Family Health Service Authority areas. The information shown in the table is for 30 September for the years 1993 to 2001 and for 31 August 2002.
| At 30 September | Number of persons registered |
|---|---|
| 1993 | 310 |
| 1994 | 287 |
| 1995 | 257 |
| 1996 | 247 |
| 1997 | 245 |
| 1998(7) | 214 |
| 1999(7) | 216 |
| 2000(7) | 212 |
| 2001(7) | 203 |
| 2002(7) | 199 |
(7) Registration data for these years in not comparable with earlier years due to the change in the registration period. 2002 data is for 31 August.
Registrations lapse if patients do not return to their dentists within 15 months and so the registration figures exclude patients who haven't been to their GDS dentist within the past 15 months. Also excluded from the figures are patients who receive dental treatment from other National Health Service dental services, including dental access centres.
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The number of patients registered with a dentist prior to November 1997 cannot be compared to those of later years due to the change in the registration period for new registration from September 1996.
Some of the reduction in recorded registration numbers is due to improvements in the methods of removing duplicate registration records, which were first employed by the Dental Practice Board in 1993.
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many complaints each primary care trust in Gloucestershire has received in the last year from people who cannot get access to NHS dentists. [109405]
Ms Blears: The information is not collected centrally.
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