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NHS Staff
Mr. Yeo: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost of (a) medical and dental staff and (b) administration and estates staff was in each year from 1997–98 to 2002–03 (i) in cash terms and (ii) as a proportion of total NHS expenditure. [166656]
Mr. Hutton: Table 1 shows expenditure on medical and dental staff in cash terms in England, for financial years 1997–98 to 2002–03.
Table 2 shows expenditure on administrative and estates staff in cash terms in England, for financial years 1997–98 to 2002–03.
Table 3 shows expenditure on medical and dental staff as a proportion of total national health service expenditure, for financial years 1997–98 to 2002–03.
Table 4 shows expenditure on administrative and estates staff as a proportion of total NHS expenditure, for financial years 1997–98 to 2002–3.
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| Total expenditure | |
|---|---|
| 1997–98 | 3,021,917,492 |
| 1998–99 | 3,300,976,457 |
| 1999–2000 | 3,664,710,847 |
| 2000–01 | 4,,138,320,465 |
| 2001–02 | 4,790,866,706 |
| 2002–03 | 5,445,120,598 |
| Total expenditure | |
|---|---|
| 1997–98 | 2,962,032,067 |
| 1998–99 | 3,122,153,228 |
| 1999–2000 | 3,368,608,095 |
| 2000–01 | 3,705,851,155 |
| 2001–02 | 4,175,084,314 |
| 2002–03 | 4,710,704,403 |
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| Percentage of total expenditure | |
|---|---|
| 1997–98 | 8.72 |
| 1998–99 | 9.02 |
| 1999–2000 | 9.19 |
| 2000–01 | 9.42 |
| 2001–02 | 9.72 |
| 2002–03 | 10.02 |
| Percentage of total expenditure | |
|---|---|
| 1997–98 | 8.54 |
| 1998–99 | 8.53 |
| 1999–2000 | 8.45 |
| 2000–01 | 8.43 |
| 2001–02 | 8.47 |
| 2002–03 | 8.67 |
Sources:
Expenditure on administration and estates staff:
Annual financial returns of NHS trusts 1997–98 to 2002–03
Annual financial returns of health authorities 1997–98 to 2001–02
Annual financial returns of strategic health authorities 2002–03
Annual financial returns of primary care trusts 2000–01 to 2002–03
Total expenditure:
From 1997–98 to 1999–2000—Departmental Report 2001 (Cm 5103)
From 2000–01 to 2002–03—Departmental Report 2003 (Cm 5904).
Nursing
Dr. Murrison: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) for what reason his Department ceased in October 2001 to collect data on the proportion of student nurses who successfully complete courses in (a) general nursing, (b) paediatric nursing, (c) midwifery and (d) psychiatric nursing; [166353]
(2) what targets his Department has for reducing the attrition rate among student nurses; [166354]
(3) what targets his Department set in March 2001 for reducing the attrition rate among student nurses. [166355]
Mr. Hutton: The English National Board for Nursing (ENB) collected information on the attrition rate from nursing and midwifery courses until its abolition in March 2002 with the creation of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). A new attrition data collection system administered by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) has been put in place, from which the information will be available in due course. A single and consistent definition of attrition has also been agreed with higher education institutions.
The latest complete information on attrition from nurse training courses relates to the 1997–98 cohort and averaged 20 per cent. across all branches. The human resources performance framework, published in October 2000, set a target of 13 per cent. attrition for students entering nurse training in 2000–01. Workforce
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development confederations and strategic health authorities are working with higher education institutions to meet this target locally.
Postcode Prescribing
Mr. Evans: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to tackle the large local variations in the availability of chemotherapy and other systemic therapies across England identified by the National Audit Office in its report on cancer services. [164684R]
Miss Melanie Johnson: I refer the hon. Member to the response I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Norwich, North (Dr. Gibson) on 19 April 2004, Official Report, column 173W.
Primary Care Trusts
Mrs. Gillan: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will undertake a review of the funding allocation for the Buckinghamshire primary care trusts before 2006. [166817]
Mr. Hutton: Work on the next round of funding allocations, covering the period up to 2007–08, has already commenced. The Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation will oversee issues relating to the next round of funding allocations. The development of the allocations policy will involve consideration of funding for all primary care trusts.
Social Services Departments
Miss Widdecombe: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many social services departments do not have an intervenor service for deafblind children. [166854]
Dr. Ladyman [holding answer 21 April 2004]: Guidance published by the Department in 2001 required local authorities to ensure the provision of specifically trained one-to-one support workers for deafblind people assessed as needing one. The 2001 guidance refers to intervenor services as one form of support. Sense, the charity for deafblind people, recently estimated that 19 per cent. of social services departments are providing intervenors for at least one person.
Supporting People Scheme
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent discussions he has had with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Treasury on the overspend on the Supporting People budget. [167855]
Dr. Ladyman: I met my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (Yvette Cooper) on 13 January. I attended an inter-ministerial meeting on this subject on 14 January.
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what advice he has given to local Supporting People teams on the implications of the budget overspend. [167856]
Dr. Ladyman:
Advice to local Supporting People teams is the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister.
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EDUCATION AND SKILLS
Apprenticeships (Manchester)
Mr. Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many residents of Manchester, Gorton have undertaken apprenticeships in each of the last five years. [167437]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: The information requested is not available at parliamentary constituency level. Nor is the information available on a consistent geographical basis over the last five years. However, the following table shows the number of starts on modern apprenticeships in the Greater Manchester Learning and Skills Council (LSC) area between April 2001 and the end of July 2003, as well as the number of starts from April 1996 to March 2001 in the six Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs) that amalgamated into Greater Manchester LSC—Bolton and Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and High Peak and Wigan.
(6) Time period.
(7) TEC also became part of Derbyshire LSC
Source:
TEC management information
LSC Individualised Learner Record
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