Previous Section | Index | Home Page |
John Mann: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the survival rate for patients with cancer at Bassetlaw hospital was in each of the last 20 years. [201091]
Mr. Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. John Mann, dated 6 December 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question concerning what the survival rate for patients with cancer at Bassetlaw Hospital was in each of the last 20 years. (201091)
Cancer survival rates are only available for specific cancers and hence do not indicate overall survival rates for all cancer patients. Rates are not available for individual hospitals, NHS Trusts or Primary Care Organisations. However, figures for the major cancer sites are available for current Strategic Health Authorities and were previously produced for the former Health Authorities.
The latest available one and five-year survival rates at the sub-national level are for patients 1 diagnosed during 199496 and followed up to 31 December 2001. These data are available for Trent strategic health authority, which contains Bassetlaw primary care trust.
Figures for earlier years were for North Nottinghamshire health authority (which included Bassetlaw Hospital). These covered: patients diagnosed during 199294 and followed up to the end of 1999,
Mr. Burstow: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many carers (a) under the age of 18 years and (b) between five and 15 years in (i) England, (ii) each constituency and (iii) each local authority are providing unpaid care for (A) up to 20 hours, (B) between 20 and 49 hours and (C) 50 hours or over a week. [201222]
Mr. Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Paul Burstow, dated 6 December 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking for the number of carers (a) under the age of 18 years and (b) between five and 15 years in (i) England, (ii) each constituency and (iii) each local authority, providing unpaid care for (A) up to 20 hours a week, (B) between 20 and 49 hours and (C) 50 hours or over a week. (201222)
Figures from commissioned table C0399 indicate that on Census day (29 April 2001) there were 139,199 people aged under 18 years providing unpaid care in England of which 90,431 were aged between 5 and 15 years. The extract below shows the distribution of these carers according to the number of hours of care provided per week.
Specially commissioned table C0398 has been run to identify the number of people aged under 18 years and (b) the number of people aged between 5 and 15 years who are providing unpaid care in each Parliamentary Constituency in England. The table shows the distribution of these carers according to the number of hours of care provided per week. This has been placed in the House of Commons Library and can also be accessed on the National Statistics website at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/opl5.asp.
Specially commissioned table C0399 has been run to identify the number of people aged under 18 years and (b) the number of people aged between 5 and 15 years who are providing unpaid care in each Local Authority District in England. The table shows the distribution of these carers according to the number of hours of care provided per week. This has been placed in the House of Commons Library and can also be accessed on the National Statistics website at: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/opl5.asp.
Mr. Wilshire: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the Paymaster-General will reply to the letter of 10 November from the hon. Member for Spelthorne, about a constituent, Miss K. McDermott. [202735]
Dawn Primarolo: I have done so.
Keith Vaz: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer in which Muslim newspapers the Department advertises; and what kinds of advertising the Department places in Muslim newspapers. [201698]
Mr. Timms:
In the last two financial years, the only advertisements placed by the Treasury have been for the purpose of staff recruitment and the Treasury has not placed adverts in any media aimed at specific religious or ethnic minority groups.
6 Dec 2004 : Column 317W
The Treasury uses a wide variety of different publications for recruitment advertising, tailored according to the nature of the vacancy to be filled. This includes the use of professional journals and magazines, national and local newspapers, and websites.
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the cost of refurbishing each ministerial private office was in the last two years. [202493]
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the cost has been of criminal damage to his Department's buildings in each of the last two years. [202495]
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the total cost to his Department was for the use of external consultants in each of the last two years. [202503]
Mr. Timms: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave on 25 October 2004, Official Report, columns 105556W, to the hon. Member for Stratford-upon-Avon (Mr. Maples) and the hon. Member for New Forest East (Dr. Lewis)
Andrew Selous:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many departmental mobile telephones
6 Dec 2004 : Column 318W
were used by Ministers, special advisers and officials in his Department in each year since 1997; at what cost; how many such telephones were lost or stolen in each year since 1997; and what the replacement costs were in each case. [202168]
Mr. Timms: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I gave on 20 October to the hon. Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr. Prisk).
Mr. Ronnie Campbell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many drug-related deaths there were in (a) Blyth Valley and (b) South Northumberland in each of the last five years. [202056]
Mr. Timms: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. Ronnie Campbell, dated 6 December 2004:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many drug-related deaths there were in (a) Blyth Valley and (b) South Northumberland in each of the last five years. (202056)
Available figures relate to deaths from drug poisoning, not the total number that were drug-related. Figures are available for the Shire County of Northumberland and local authorities within the county. The most recently available information is for deaths in 2002. Figures are shown in the table below for these areas for the calendar years 1998 to 2002.
Next Section | Index | Home Page |