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Surgical Beds

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average number of medical patients occupying surgical beds was in each local health authority in each of the last seven years. [210108]

Mr. Hutton [holding answer 24 January 2005]: Data on the weekly average number of medical outliers (medical patients occupying surgical beds) by strategic health authority (SHA) for 2002–03 and 2003–04 are shown in the table.

Data for 2004–05 are not available as they are now a voluntary item and not comprehensively collected. Data are not available by SHA prior to 2002–03.

SHA	Average number of medical outliers per week
2003–04
Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire	243
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	89
Birmingham and the Black Country	140
Cheshire and Merseyside	193
County Durham and Tees Valley	51
Cumbria and Lancashire	184
Essex	51
Greater Manchester	254
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight	111
Kent and Medway	86
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland	130
Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire	191
North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire	116
North Central London	94
North East London	97
North West London	64
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear	64
Shropshire and Staffordshire	119
Somerset and Dorset	116
South East London	92
South West London	51
South West Peninsula	126
South Yorkshire	133
Surrey and Sussex	149
Thames Valley	92
Trent	121
West Midlands South	113
West Yorkshire	102
England	3,370
2002–03
Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire	286
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	89
Birmingham and the Black Country	155
Cheshire and Merseyside	215
County Durham and Tees Valley	53
Cumbria and Lancashire	233
Essex	78
Greater Manchester	284
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight	127
Kent and Medway	87
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland	101
Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire	198
North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire	100
North Central London	95
North East London	106
North West London	90
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear	78
Shropshire and Staffordshire	141
Somerset and Dorset	120
South East London	77
South West London	43
South West Peninsula	169
South Yorkshire	98
Surrey and Sussex	207
Thames Valley	163
Trent	145
West Midlands South	136
West Yorkshire	109
England	3,782

 
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Waiting Lists

Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients are waiting for treatment in each Government Office region in England. [211947]

Mr. Hutton: The Department does not collect waiting times information by Government office region.

Ward Environment Budgets

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding has been allocated for ward environment budgets; and how that funding has been spent. [208080]

Miss Melanie Johnson: Between 2001–02 and 2003–04, about £83 million was allocated to the ward environment budget initiative announced in April 2000. To reduce bureaucracy, information is no longer collected centrally on the allocation of these budgets, which are matters to be determined locally.

NORTHERN IRELAND

Age Discrimination

Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what his Department's policy is towards age discrimination. [202510]

Mr. Pearson: The Northern Ireland Office aims to ensure that its staff are treated fairly and equally by promoting equal opportunities policies whereby no employee or job applicant is unfairly discriminated against either directly or indirectly on a number of grounds, including age. All staff are provided with a copy of this policy.

In compliance with its statutory duty under Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, the Department has due regard to the promotion of equality of opportunity between persons in nine specified categories, which include persons of different ages. Both internal and outward focused policies and practices are screened to ensure they do not have an adverse impact on any of the nine categories, including those of different ages.
 
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Grammar Schools

Mr. Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many pupils are enrolled for grammar schools in Northern Ireland; and what the change in enrolment numbers has been since the baseline figures used by the Costello Inquiry. [211636]

Mr. Gardiner: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the replyI gave to the hon. Member for Strangford (Mrs.Robinson) on 25 January 2005, Official Report, column 304W.

Invest Northern Ireland

Mr. Trimble: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many jobs have been created in Northern Ireland as a result of foreign direct investment in the last three financial years; and what the average cost per job of Invest Northern Ireland grants and loans was in each year. [211933]

Mr. Gardiner: As the employment associated with Inward Investment projects typically builds up over a three to four year period, it is not meaningful to measure job creation at an early stage. However, the following table shows the number of jobs promoted (expected to be created) as a result of foreign direct investment projects secured between 2001–02 and 2003–04 and the assistance offered to companies to promote these jobs (assistance during 2001–02 was provided by the Industrial Development Board and assistance during 2002–03 and 2003–04 was provided by Invest NI).

Financial year	Expected jobs promoted	Assistance offered for expected jobs promoted (£)	Cost per expected job promoted (£)
2001–02	2,526	27,478,799	10,878
2002–03	1,033	7,171,044	6,942
2003–04	2,053	14,481,420	7,054
Grand total	5,612	49,131,263	8,755

Mr. Trimble: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how much Invest Northern Ireland has spent in the last three financial years on acquiring equity in local companies. [211934]

 
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Mr. Gardiner: The amount that Invest NI has spent in the last three financial years acquiring equity in local companies is as follows:
£

	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05 to date
Locally owned companies	3,475,000	8,454,500	2,823,026
Local companies owned by GB parent	1,350,000	599,997	0
Local companies owned by overseas or ROI parent	0	2,177,179	0
Total	4,825,000	11,232,276	2,823,026

Juvenile Justice Centre

Lady Hermon: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what training is available to staff in the Juvenile Justice Centre in relation to the suitability of methods of restraint used. [210943]

Mr. Spellar: This is an operational responsibility of the Chief Executive of the Youth Justice Agency of Northern Ireland (Bill Lockhart). He has advised me that staff are trained in Physical Control in Care (PCC). PCC is the only physical restraint procedure used in the Juvenile Justice Centre and has been approved by the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) and the Social Services Inspectorate (SSI).

Initial staff training involves a five day PCC course delivered by qualified PCC instructors. Refresher training for all staff is delivered over a two day period at least twice a year.

National Assets

Mr. Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland which assets (a) the Northern Ireland Office and (b) the Northern Ireland Departments plan to dispose of in each of the next three financial years. [210636]

Mr. Pearson: The following table lists the assets which the Northern Ireland Office and the 11 Northern Ireland Departments currently plan to dispose over the next three financial years. In respect of the 11 NI Departments, further work will be undertaken on this issue in taking forward the NI Investment Strategy, and in the context of the Lyons Report Towards Better Management of Public Sector Assets".

	Financial year
Department	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08
NIO	Routine IT and office equipment rolling replacement
	Housing stock with a total value of £3.6 million
DARD	1 Dwelling	Land at Tullywiggan (0.42 hectares)	—
	Plot of land at Loughall (25 acres)	Land at Stifehill (1.28 hectares)	—
	Plot of land at Crossnacreevy	—	—
	Land at Walkways (18.2 hectares)	—	—
	Land at Tullyhogue (20.5 hectares)	—	—
	Land at Oldstone Road (0.42 hectares)	—	—
	Landrover	—	—
	3 Renault vans	—	—
	4 vehicles	—	—
	4 houses	—	—
	Routine IT and office equipment rolling replacement
DCAL	Lough Melvin Car Park, Gavros, Garrison, Co. Fermanagh	—	—
	Routine IT and office equipment rolling replacement
DE	Over 300 PCs—to be replaced
	2 motor vehicles over the next three years
DEL	—	—	Training Centre at Felden, Newtownabbey, subject to alternative accommodation being found for training activities
DFP	17/19 Rainey Street, Magherafelt	Armagh House, Ormeau Avenue, Belfast	—
	—	20 College Gardens, Belfast	—
	—	25/27 Church Street, Antrim	—
	—	178/180 Shankill Road, Belfast	—
	Fixed assets in the areas of ICT, transport, and plant and machinery are subject to various rolling replacement policies and individual assessments
DETI	None	None	None
DHSSPS	Hillcroft Special Care School, Newtownabbey	Portion of Central Services Agency Building at Adelaide Street, Belfast	Ormeau Road Health Centre, Omagh
	Land at Donaghanie Road, Omagh (40 acres)	Balance of site behind Drumreagh College, Omagh (18.6 acres)	—
	4.75 acre site at Drumnakilly Road, Omagh	Fields 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 15 (70 acres) at Downshire Hospital, Downpatrick	—
	Drumreagh College Site, Omagh (18.41 acres)	15.96 acres at Drumcoo, Enniskillen	—
	15 acre site at Muckamore Abbey Hospital	Watterson's Farm, Omagh (40 acres)	—
	18 acre site at Scroggy Road, Limavady	—	—
	0.75 acre site at Scroggy Road, Limavady	—	—
	Field 27, 28 and 29 (20 acres) at Downshire Hospital, Downpatrick	—	—
	0.68 acre site at Omagh General Hospital, Omagh	—	—
DOE	Routine IT and office equipment rolling replacement
DRD	Routine IT and office equipment rolling replacement
OFMDFM	Former Royal Irish Regiment base, Magherafelt	—	—

 
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