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Mr. Viggers: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the means-tested benefits available through his Department and the agencies for which it is responsible (a) in May 1997 and (b) now. [182592]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The income related benefits available through this Department in 1997, all still available in 2004, are help with health costs (including prescriptions, dental treatment, sight tests, glasses or contact lenses, wigs or fabric supports from a hospital and travel to hospital for national health service treatment) and the welfare food scheme, providing free milk and vitamins.
Mr. Hurst: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of nurses working in the national health service were supplied on contract by private agencies in each year from 1990 to 2003. [173638]
Mr. Hutton: Separate information is not collected centrally on expenditure on agency staff. Information is collected on expenditure on non-national health service staff for primary care trusts, NHS trusts and strategic health authorities. These figures include all agency staff and any other staff not directly employed by these bodies. The figures for non-NHS nurses, midwives and health visitors are shown in the table.
Mr. Paul Marsden: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list for each year since 1997 the number of miles flown by each Minister on official departmental business. [181871]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information requested could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Tom Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which Ministers from his Department have visited health services and medical care facilities in Taiwan in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [177493]
Ms Rosie Winterton: My noble Friend, the Lord Filkin, travelled to Taiwan in October 2001 in a ministerial capacity for the Department and visited a hospital as part of his programme.
Syd Rapson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on how the Government support those diagnosed with myasthenia gravis. [182767]
Dr. Ladyman: Myasthenia gravis is a neurological condition characterised by fluctuating levels of muscle weakness. There is no cure, but treatment includes medication, surgery and palliation.
The national service framework for long term conditions will focus on improving services for people with neurological conditions. While the framework will not cover myasthenia gravis specifically, it will recommend improvements in standards, care and support that will benefit everyone with a neurological condition.
We are committed to publishing the framework as soon as possible.
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Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many emergency admissions for dental treatment there were in the NHS for each region in each year since 1997. [181193]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information available for emergency admissions into hospital for dental treatment is shown in the table for each strategic health authority area from 199798 to 200203.
199798 | 199899 | 19992000 | |
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England | 4,047 | 4,321 | 4,369 |
Strategic health authority | |||
Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire | 114 | 156 | 129 |
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | 46 | 74 | 86 |
Essex | 214 | 107 | 122 |
North west London | 58 | 281 | 122 |
North central London | 58 | 44 | 81 |
North east London | 65 | 67 | 128 |
South east London | 152 | 129 | 121 |
South west London | 50 | 54 | 84 |
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear | 29 | 98 | 149 |
County Durham and Tees Valley | | | 49 |
North and east Yorkshire and north Lincolnshire | 46 | 44 | 121 |
West Yorkshire | 48 | 105 | 190 |
Cumbria and Lancashire | 134 | 147 | 199 |
Greater Manchester | 54 | 54 | 84 |
Cheshire and Merseyside | 248 | 283 | 380 |
Thames Valley | 68 | 122 | 119 |
Hampshire and Isle Of Wight | 128 | 109 | 151 |
Kent and Medway | 73 | 49 | 138 |
Surrey and Sussex | 96 | 147 | 154 |
Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire | 93 | 85 | 105 |
South West Peninsula | 191 | 232 | 245 |
Dorset and Somerset | 89 | 84 | 89 |
South Yorkshire | 42 | 34 | 99 |
Trent | 94 | 158 | 159 |
Leicestershire, Northants and Rutland | 32 | 52 | 184 |
Shropshire and Staffordshire | 90 | 58 | 79 |
Birmingham and the Black Country | 118 | 140 | 157 |
Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire | 56 | 67 | 54 |
Unclassified region | 1,561 | 1,341 | 591 |
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