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St. Helens Hospitals

Mr. Woodward: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was spent on (a) healthcare as a whole, (b) general practitioner surgeries and (c) hospitals in (i) St Helens, (ii) Merseyside and (iii) the North West Region; and what the expected spending is in the next three years. [141484]

Miss Melanie Johnson: The information is shown in the following tables.

Expenditure on primary, secondary and total healthcare£000

For 2002–03	Primary	Secondary	Total
Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic Health Authority area	457,271	1,360,679	1,817,950
Greater Manchester Strategic Health Authority area	614,022	1,742,178	2,356,200
Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority area	578,008	1,894,710	2,472,718
Total	1,649,301	4,997,567	6,646,868
St.Helens Primary Care Trust	43,149	126,697	169,846

Note:

Audited summarisation schedules of primary care trusts within the three strategic health authority areas 2002–03 data remains provisional.

Sources:

Audited summarisation forms of the Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic Health Authority, the Greater Manchester Strategic Health Authority, and the Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority 2002–03.

North West Regional Primary Care Trust Allocations£000

	A	B	C
Primary Care Trust	2003–04	2004–05	2005–06
Bebington and West Wirral	99,993	108,879	118,128
Birkenhead and Wallasey	224,569	246,463	269,198
Central Cheshire	203,159	222,612	242,996
Central Liverpool	286,884	321,165	358,315
Cheshire West	138,205	150,791	164,098
Eastern Cheshire	161,386	175,727	190,654
Ellesmere Port and Neston	77,814	84,726	91,920
Halton	122,778	134,429	146,687
Knowsley	163,276	183,010	204,420
North Liverpool	118,120	132,316	147,710
South Liverpool	100,413	110,029	120,103
South Sefton	161,978	177,546	193,820
Southport and Formby	115,701	125,978	136,676
St Helens	181,808	199,906	222,113
Warrington	163,513	178,963	195,266
Blackburn With Darwen	143,881	158,299	175,336
Blackpool	151,874	166,655	182,076
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale	241,264	264,963	289,574
Carlisle and District	102,316	111,989	122,216
Chorley and South Ribble	171,696	188,153	205,458
Eden Valley	58,439	63,669	69,113
Fylde	63,955	69,679	75,636
Hyndburn and Ribble Valley	103,859	114,072	124,674
Morecambe Bay	289,864	316,293	344,226
Preston	141,957	154,662	167,886
West Cumbria	1 22,798	133,788,	145,227
West Lancashire	97,085	106,387	116,168
Wyre	112,822	123,458	134,710
Ashton, Leigh and Wigan	291,575	319,620	348,930
Bolton	250,490	274,908	300,262
Bury	161,739	177,168	193,365
Central Manchester	183,485	200,235	217,943
Heywood and Middleton	73,694	80,879	88,338
North Manchester	181,822	198,849	216,862
Oldham	211,831	232,879	257,782
Rochdale	128,790	141,263	154,258
Salford	247,939	271,411	296,139
South Manchester	138,532	151,887	165,832
Stockport	251,919	274,293	297,789
Tameside and Glossop	219,032	240,013	261,987
Trafford North	88,212	96,O76	104,389
Trafford South	108,726	118,389	128,446

Notes:

1. The allocations cover PCTs in the Strategic Health Authority areas of Cheshire and Merseyside, Cumbria and Lancashire and Greater Manchester.

2. These are revenue allocation amounts and not expenditure figures.

3. It is for PCTs in partnership with Strategic Health Authorities and other local stakeholders to determine how best to use their funds to meet national and local priorities for improving health, tackling health inequalities and modernising Services.

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Telecommunications Masts

Mr. Gardiner: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the level of risk to public health to those living close to mobile telephone masts changes according to the type of mast. [163430]

Miss Melanie Johnson: A review of recent research entitled Health Effects from Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields, published by the National Radiological Protection Board's (NRPB) advisory group on non-ionising radiation concluded:

"Exposure levels from living near to mobile phone base stations are extremely low, and the overall evidence indicates that they are unlikely to pose a risk to health."

The Government along with other European Union Members States has adopted the exposure guidelines of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) as expressed in the 1999 European Council Recommendation 519/EC/1999. The operators of mobile telephone equipment including GSM, 3G and TETRA systems should ensure that public exposure does not exceed the ICNIRP guidelines.

A substantial number of measurements of potential exposures of the public from base station emissions, have been made by a number of bodies, including the NRPB (www.nrpb.org) and the Radiocommunications Agency (now part of Ofcom) (www.ofcom.org.uk). In all cases exposures have been very much lower than the guidelines.

I wrote to right hon. and hon. Members 21 January 2004 with a summary of the current position relating to mobile phone technology and health concerns.

Tuberculosis

Dr. Murrison: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of TB were reported in each month since 1997. [161141]

Miss Melanie Johnson [holding answer 15 March 2004]: The numbers of tuberculosis cases reported each week since 1997 are shown in the table.

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Year total	5,664	5,915	5,938	6,379	6,571	6,627
Week number
1	87	59	104	110	113	71
2	102	110	111	135	116	177
3	110	95	101	114	120	110
4	111	108	109	98	126	110
5	127	125	106	127	141	97
6	111	123	126	147	130	151
7	123	99	90	123	111	108
8	100	104	106	108	112	152
9	118	101	123	133	127	123
10	107	135	124	105	101	109
11	115	110	107	121	110	112
12	126	93	105	141	124	138
13	96	124	106	133	95	89
14	88	107	103	126	147	92
15	102	131	123	132	112	153
16	123	79	131	155	116	163
17	157	110	134	96	149	125
18	94	102	94	133	154	170
19	90	93	144	134	101	99
20	133	133	174	146	146	154
21	118	109	113	125	211	114
22	102	105	99	105	111	225
23	116	153	112	135	170	74
24	105	114	124	109	159	150
25	130	122	142	159	171	147
26	102	124	148	120	128	177
27	120	149	131	143	156	136
28	91	112	142	120	145	124
29	106	136	134	142	125	143
30	115	140	99	129	169	144
31	104	129	144	121	116	130
32	126	107	141	116	142	156
33	124	109	135	127	113	121
34	113	111	115	167	115	134
35	84	129	90	97	85	96
36	111	53	119	111	131	127
37	122	82	107	108	127	109
38	119	138	122	137	134	120
39	115	123	110	139	114	116
40	94	119	104	131	130	152
41	101	113	112	124	142	106
42	94	129	98	124	101	102
43	142	116	85	120	117	132
44	114	124	123	124	116	115
45	102	95	101	99	114	141
46	86	109	100	121	97	127
47	102	130	117	106	145	123
48	1O6	103	114	101	152	114
49	111	115	113	124	92	164
50	102	137	80	83	108	120
51	90	90	99	132	127	95
52	77	104	44	63	57	90
53	—	45	—	—	—	—

Source:

Health Protection Agency, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre.

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Dr. Murrison: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the incidence of multi-drug resistant TB was in each year since 1990. [161045]

Miss Melanie Johnson [holding answer 15 March 2004]: Routine surveillance of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance commenced in 1994. The incidence of multi-drug resistance since then is shown in the table.

	Percentage
1993	0.8
1994	1.5
1995	1 .9
1996	1.7
1997	1.3
1998	1.4
1999	0.8
2000	1.0
2001	1.2
2002	(41)1.1

⁽⁴¹⁾ Provisional figure.

Source:

Health Protection Agency, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre.

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