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Communicable Diseases

Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many outbreaks of communicable disease there have been in Northern Ireland in each of the past five years for which figures are available; and if he will list the diseases concerned. [193381]

Angela Smith: Numbers of outbreaks of communicable disease reported to the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (Northern Ireland) over the five years from 2000 to the present are in the following table. While the majority of outbreaks have been of enteric (gastrointestinal) illness, there have also been outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease, syphilis and mumps. Reporting of such outbreaks by Health Boards and laboratories is voluntary.
Outbreaks of communicable disease, Northern Ireland, 2000–04

	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	Total
Enteric or gastrointestinal illness
C. perfringens	1	2	0	0	0	3
Cryptosporidium	3	1	0	0	0	4
E coli O 157	1	1	0	1	0	3
Rotavirus	2	1	3	0	0	6
Salmonella enteridis PT4	1	1	0	0	0	2
Salmonella idikan	0	0	0	0	1	1
Salmonella newport	0	0	0	0	1	1
Salmonella typhimurium DT 104	0	0	0	0	1	1
Salmonella virchow	0	0	0	0	1	1
Shigella sonnei	1	0	0	0	0	1
Small round structured virus (SRSV)/Noro/Norwalk	18	11	46	25	16	116
Other viral causes	7	12	13	15	7	54
Enteric outbreaks of unknown cause	0	1	5	3	16	25
Sub-total	34	30	67	44	43	218
Non-enteric illness
Syphilis(32)	1	0	0	0	0	1
Mumps(33)	1	0	0	1	0	2
Legionnaires disease	0	0	1	0	0	1
Sub-total	2	0	1	1	0	4
Grand total	36	30	68	45	43	222

⁽³²⁾ Syphilis outbreak began July 2000 to present
⁽³³⁾ First mumps outbreak began November 1999–2000. Second mumps outbreak began October 2003 to present.

Continuing Care Arrangements

Lembit Öpik: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many individuals aged (a) 18 to 29, (b) 30 to 39, (c) 40 to 49, (d) 50 to 59, (e) 60 to 69, (f) 70 to 79, (g) 80 to 89 and (h) over 90 years are in receipt of funding under continuing care arrangements in each of the four health board areas in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement. [192735]

Angela Smith: Information on the number of individuals in receipt of funding under continuing health care arrangements is not available.

Health service funded continuing health care is available where a person is assessed as having on-going clinical needs that require frequent intervention by a hospital consultant and/or specialist nursing services. This is generally provided in hospital, most usually in specialist units; in exceptional circumstances continuing health care may be provided in a nursing home setting. Health and Social Services Boards are expected to have operational arrangements in place, which take into consideration local priorities and available resources, for this purpose.

It is considered that clinicians and their counterparts in social care are best placed to make decisions in individual cases in relation to their patients' long-term care needs on the basis of their clinical and professional judgments.

Development Funding

Mr. McGrady: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much Central Government funding was allocated to each local authority district in Northern Ireland for (a) urban regeneration and (b) economic development in each of the past five years. [190508]

 
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Mr. Spellar: Central Government funding in respect of urban regeneration and economic development is not allocated on the basis of local authority districts. Successful funding applications may arise from projects which work across a number of local authority areas. Information is not normally held at district council level and consequently a special exercise was carried out to determine, where possible, which district council is the recipient. The details are given in the table. It should be noted that in some instances European Funds is a call on
 
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the Departmental Expenditure Limits and both the Department for Social Development and Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment in these instances have classified spend as Central Government Funding.

Table A gives information on Central Government funding for Urban Regeneration in last five years paid by the Department for Social Development.

Table B gives information on Central Government funding by DETI for Economic Development in the last five years.
Table A: Urban regeneration

	Financial year
District council area	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Belfast	11,716,714	12,406,777	8,110,703	6,373,039	5,666,903
Antrim	405,000	—	—	—	—
Ballymena	—	—	—	—	—
Carrickfergus	—	—	—	—	—
Larne	192,959	29,925	—	4,880	—
Magherafelt	363,750	449,300	—	325,000	—
Newtownabbey	—	224,575	116,000	429,575	26,000
Ballymoney	—	—	—	—	—
Coleraine	87,032	77,990	2,273	100,519	58,075
Derry	6,143,773	6,326,127	5,095,701	4,027,204	3,381,437
Limavady	—	395,426	—	58,471	250,000
Moyle	446,000	—	—	—	—
Ards	40,000	7,726	—	—	—
Castlereagh	15,179	47,786	55,591	87,244	36,368
Down	—	2,430	47,500	92,626	2,500
Lisburn	1,046,534	529,632	576,922	485,126	204,075
North Down	—	—	—	—	—
Armagh	1,509	11,351	—	—	—
Banbridge	113,818	323,856	80,809	307,982	—
Craigavon	4,455,787	9,500	3,840		—
Newry and Mourne	112,821	160,209	57,100	79,601	—
Cookstown	21,000	—	—	6,255	—
Dungannon	—	—	212,560	—	—
Fermanagh	36,659	—	232,660	—	—
Omagh	230,315	202,481	1,650	3,116,148	—
Strabane	—	97,625	229,635	463,279	270,000
Total	25,428,850	21,302,716	14,822,944	15,956,949	9,895,358

Table A does not include funding from the Community Support Programme which is a unique collaborative initiative involving the Voluntary and Community Unit of DSD and the 26 district councils to support local community infrastructure. Table A also does not include regeneration spend of £35,870,000 over the last five financial years by the Laganside Corporation and Belfast City Centre Promotions. Also not included is £8,874,298 of PEACE II and Urban II money spent on urban regeneration initiatives that could not be allocated by area.
Table B: Economic development

	Financial year
District council area	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
Belfast	24,609,000	16,870,000	30,342,000	56,822,000	0
Antrim	1,155,000	3,739,000	18,872,000	3,106,000	50,000
Ballymena	2,250,000	1,563,000	1,929,000	4,722,000	39,000
Carrickfergus	4,685,000	1,359,000	2,192,000	388,000	0
Larne	550,000	261,000	1,385,000	2,457,000	16,000
Magherafelt	2,067,000	1,356,000	1,725,000	1,987,000	0
Newtownabbey	19,783,000	3,614,000	6,906,000	3,219,000	66,000
Ballymoney	287,000	642,000	518,000	568,000	14,000
Coleraine	733,000	718,000	2,491,000	686,000	0
Derry	11,715,000	5,544,000	14,630,000	7,327,000	28,000
Limavady	7,694,000	1,374,000	1,998,000	4,997,000	29,000
Moyle	914,000	127,000	307,000	291,000	0
Ards	2,742,000	724,000	1,362,000	2,939,000	0
Castlereagh	641,000	4,984,000	1,000,000	1,368,000	21,000
Down	3,249,000	1,771,000	1,430,000	1,132,000	77,000
Lisburn	1,527,000	3,012,000	1,612,000	2,342,000	185,000
North Down	813,000	938,000	1,146,000	3,395,000	383,000
Armagh	1,353,000	1,144,000	5,275,000	1,416,000	66,000
Banbridge	631,000	993,000	1,966,000	482,000	14,000
Craigavon	1,936,000	4,887,000	16,146,000	6,770,000	145,000
Newry and Mourne	3,621,000	5,857,000	2,187,000	1,736,000	128,000
Cookstown	903,000	1,280,000	1,455,000	2,215,000	32,000
Dungannon	2,185,000	4,854,000	2,460,000	2,881,000	19,000
Fermanagh	1,680,000	902,000	3,890,000	3,307,000	88,000
Omagh	1,150,000	4,189,000	1,027,000	1,628,000	33,000
Strabane	866,000	273,000	3,847,000	4,585,000	0
Total	99,739,000	72,975,000	128,098,000	122,766,000	1,433,000

 
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Table B does not include an additional £21,211,000 that could not be allocated by area that was offered in 2002–03 by the Company Development Programme. It also does not include £3,994,000 from a range of schemes that was offered in 2003–04 that could not be allocated by area.

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