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Pain Relief

Mr. Wray: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what management and assessment services and facilities are available to those suffering from persistent pain. [128080]

Mr. Hutton: It remains the responsibility of primary care trusts (PCTs) to commission services for people with pain, taking account of the resources they have available and the needs of their wider populations. The Clinical Standards Advisory Group (CSAG) report on pain services, published in April 2000, highlighted variations in access to pain services throughout the country. It made recommendations to national hospital service acute trusts and commissioners on how pain services should be delivered in order to reduce variations to access.

It recommended that PCT commissioners should review local provision of pain services, looking particularly at the provision of more specialised treatments on a networked basis. In this review, account should be taken of the needs of both adults and children, and include patients with acute pain resulting from sudden illness or accident, as well as post-operative pain and chronic pain. Trusts should also agree with commissioners the services and resources which are appropriate to meet local needs.

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been reviewing pain management techniques as part of the Supportive and Palliative Care Guidance. This provides a clearer idea of what therapies are effective and areas where further work is needed. Part A of the guidance is available in draft on the NICE website at http://www.nice.org.uk/.

Hospital Security

Dr. Cable: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients are under (a) police guard and (b) armed police guard in (i) NHS and (ii) private hospitals; and if he will make a statement. [128766]

Mr. Hutton: This information is not routinely collected centrally.

Public Health Laboratory Service

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the Public Health Laboratory Service laboratories that (a) will transfer and (b) have transferred to NHS trusts, broken down by (i) trust, (ii) date of transfer, (iii) current running cost and (iv) staffing complement. [124310]

Miss Melanie Johnson: The running costs and staffing numbers for the laboratories transferred to the national health service are shown in the following table. All the laboratory transfers were completed on or before 1 April 2003.

Laboratory	NHS Trust	2002–03 budget (£)	Staff complement (WTE)(40)
Ashford	East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust	2,799,466	62.69
Brighton	Brighton and Sussex University NHS Trust	1,868,306	42.44
Carlisle	North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	1,251,210	30.43
Chelmsford	Mid Essex Hospital NHS Trust	1,212,129	37.82
Chester	Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Trust	1,728,815	47.67
Central Middlesex	North West London Hospitals NHS Trust	1,625,217	30.70
Coventry	University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust	2,145,805	49.78
Dorchester	West Dorset General Hospital NHS Trust	1,134,621	22.99
Exeter	Royal Devon and Exeter Healthcare NHS Trust	1,979,930	49.29
Gloucester	Gloucester Hospitals NHS Trust	1,465,721	45.71
Hereford	Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust	975,290	23.73
Hull	Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	2,366,917	61.16
Ipswich	Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust	1,279,748	34.75
Leicester	University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust	2,812,959	68.30
Lincoln	Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospital NHS Trust	998,295	23.59
Liverpool	Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust	1,934,072	54.38
Luton	Luton and Dunstable NHS Trust	1,229,500	28.89
Middlesbrough	South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust	1,372,303	36.73
Norwich	Norfolk and Norwich University NHS Trust	2,055,942	52.34
Nottingham	Nottingham University NHS Trust	3,105,899	80.38
Peterborough	Peterborough Hospitals NHS Trust	944,533	25.00
Plymouth	Plymouth NHS Trust	2,125,294	44.17
Poole	Poole Hospital NHS Trust	2,329,965	52.67
Portsmouth	Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust	1,984,922	47.01
Preston	Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	2,426,407	72.21
Reading	Royal Berkshire and Battle NHS Trust	1,644,385	35.94
Salisbury	Salisbury Healthcare NHS Trust	842,955	17.32
Sheffield	Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	2,354,821	58.60
Shrewsbury	Royal Shrewsbury Hospital NHS Trust	1,775,981	36.47
Stoke	North Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust	1,756,098	39.34
Taunton	Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust	1,474,244	32.28
Truro	Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust	2,182,102	44.80

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Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust

Mr. Horam: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many organisations tendered when the present contract for car parking at Queen Mary's Sidcup NHS Trust was awarded; and how long the contract lasts. [129756]

Mr. Hutton: Four organisations responded to the tendering exercise for this contract in 1999. The contract length is five years with an option to extend for a further two.

Stem Cell Research

Mr. Dalyell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State's letter of 15 January, PO1021981, what action he has taken as a result of the House of Lord's findings in relation to stem cell research and therapeutic cloning; and if he will make a statement. [128416]

Miss Melanie Johnson: Government policy in this area of research has evolved following a number of influential reports, the most recent being that of the House of Lords Select Committee in February 2002. All of these reports have stressed the great potential of stem cell research and have concluded that no single source of stem cells should be worked on exclusively. The Government have made available, through the research councils, £40 million over two years for stem cell research, including stem cells derived from embryos, adult tissue, and cord blood.

The House of Lords confirmed, in its judgement of 13 March 2003, that embryos created by cell nuclear replacement (commonly known as therapeutic cloning) are fully regulated by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. Subject to strict criteria, licences

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for the creation by therapeutic cloning of embryos for research may be granted by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.

Wage Costs

Dr. Fox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the wage costs of (a) administration and (b) estates staff within the NHS were in 2002–03. [130322]

Mr. Hutton: This information will be available in February 2004.

Waiting Times/Lists

Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of patients in each hospital trust area were waiting for treatment for more than 12 months (a) in 2002–03 and (b) on the latest date for which figures are available. [130283]

Mr. Hutton [holding answer 16 September 2003]: The table provides the percentage of patients at those trusts showing patients waiting over 12 months at either March or July 2003 or both. For all remaining trusts the percentage of patients waiting over 12 months at both periods was zero.

Patients waiting for elective in-patient admission: Position at month end: England (provider based)

	Percentage of patientswaiting over 12 months
NHS trust/primary care trust	March 2003	July 2003
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust	0.51	0.09
Gloucestershire Hospitals	0.00	0.01
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	0.00	0.03
James Paget Healthcare NHS Trust	0.00	0.03
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	0.00	0.01
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust	0.03	0.02
Medway NHS Trust	0.19	0.06
North Bristol NHS Trust	0.01	0.00
North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust	0.12	0.00
Royal Shrewsbury Hospitals NHS Trust	0.00	0.31
South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust	0.00	0.12
St. Mary's NHS Trust	0.00	0.02
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust	0.00	0.04
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust	0.12	0.00
West London Mental Health NHS Trust	7.69	0.00
Weston Area Health NHS Trust	0.18	0.00

Source:

Department of Health forms KH07 and Monthly monitoring

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HOUSE OF COMMMONS COMMISSION

Parliamentary Works

Mr. Greg Knight: To ask the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire, representing the House of Commons Commission what the estimated cost is of the work carried out to the Palace of Westminster in (a) 2002, (b) 2003 and (c) 2004; and how many workmen (i) are and (ii) have been employed on the Parliamentary Estate in connection therewith. [129606]

Sir Archy Kirkwood: The cost to the House of Commons of maintenance and new works on the Parliamentary Estate in the financial year 2002–03 was £29.5 million. For the financial year 2003–04 the forecast cost is £24.2 million and for 2004–05 it is £18.4 million. Due to the many estate-wide services, it is not possible to provide accurate figures for individual buildings or to provide figures by calendar years.During the summer recess of 2002 approximately 1,200 contractors' personnel were employed on site and in the summer of 2003 the number is approximately 1,000.

The House of Commons Commission can answer only for those parts of the Parliamentary Estate for which this House is responsible.

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