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Ambulance Services
Tom Cox: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been spent on ambulance services within the Greater London area in each of the last three years. [215143]
Dr. Ladyman: The London Ambulance Service National Health Service Trust covers the whole Greater London area.
The information requested is not held centrally. However, the table shows income figures for the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust for the past three years.
| Amount (£) | |
|---|---|
| 2001–02 | 135,775,000 |
| 2002–03 | 160,750,000 |
| 2003–04 | 168,508,000 |
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many ambulances are operational in Lancashire during the (a) day and (b) night; [216829]
(2) what the average time patients waited to be taken home by ambulance following discharge was at (a) Chorley Hospital and (b) Preston Hospital in the last period for which figures are available. [216892]
Miss Melanie Johnson: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Child Mental Health
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many specialists in child mental health are employed in Lancashire Mental Health Trust. [216893]
Miss Melanie Johnson: The information requested is shown in the table.
Source:
Department of Health medical and dental workforce census.
Departmental Expenditure (Research and Development)
Mrs. Anne Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what (a) his Department's expenditure and (b) the expenditure of each agency for which his Department is responsible on research and development relating to UK university departments and research centres was in each year between 2001–02 and 2003–04. [206997]
Miss Melanie Johnson:
I refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave on 15 February 2005, Official Report, columns 139–42W.
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Drug Misusers
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many drug misusers were also diagnosed with mental illness in each year since 1986; and what proportion these figures represent of the total number of drug misusers in each year. [216156]
Miss Melanie Johnson: The data are not collected centrally.
Endometriosis
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding has been provided for research into endometriosis in each year since 1997–98. [216180]
Miss Melanie Johnson: The main agency through which the Government supports medical and clinical research is the Medical Research Council (MRC). The MRC is an independent body funded by the Department of Trade and Industry via the Office of Science and Technology.
MRC expenditure in the seven years from 1997–98 on research into endometriosis is shown in the table.
| £ million | |
|---|---|
| 1997–98 | 1.7 |
| 1998–99 | 1.8 |
| 1999–2000 | 1.8 |
| 2000–01 | 1.2 |
| 2001–02 | 1.2 |
| 2002–03 | 1.0 |
| 2003–04 | Not yet available |
The MRC does not normally allocate funds to particular topics. Research proposals in all areas compete for the funding available. When appropriate, high quality research, in particular areas of strategic importance, may be given priority in competition for funds, but research excellence and importance to health continues to be the primary considerations in funding decisions. The MRC always welcomes high quality applications for support into any aspect of human health and these are judged in open competition with other demands on funding.
The Department funds research to support policy and to provide the evidence needed to underpin quality improvement and service development in the national health service. The Department's national research programme has, since 1997, funded one project related to endometriosis at a cost, to 31 March 2004, of £320,000.
Over 75 per cent, of the Department's total expenditure on health research is devolved to and managed by national health service organisations. Details of completed and ongoing projects, including a number concerned with endometriosis, can be found on the national research register at www.dh.gov.uk/research.
Food Dyes
Dr. Gibson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what evidence the Food Standards Agency has examined concerning the effect of azo dyes other than Sudan I in food. [217714]
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Miss Melanie Johnson: The Food Standards Agency has reviewed the available safety data on three other Sudan dyes (Sudan II, Sudan III and Sudan IV) and concluded that as with Sudan I that they should also be regarded as genotoxic carcinogens.
A number of other azo dyes are permitted for use as food colours in the European Union based on opinions on their safety delivered by independent experts on the Scientific Committee on Food. The safety of all permitted additives is kept under review. The European Commission has recently asked the European Food Safety Authority to re-evaluate the safety of all permitted food additives.
General Practitioners (Chorley)
Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average number of people per general practitioner is in (a) Chorley constituency and (b) the Chorley and South Ribble Primary Care Trust. [216827]
Miss Melanie Johnson: The information is not available relating to the Chorley constituency. Information relating to the Chorley and South Ribble Primary Care Trust (PCT) is shown in the table.
Note:
All practitioners (excluding retainers, registrars and locums) include general medical service (GMS) unrestricted principals, personal medical service (PMS) contracted GPs, PMS salaried GPs, restricted principals, assistants, salaried doctors (para. 52 SFA), PMS other and flexible career scheme GPs and GP returners.
Sources:
Department of Health GMS and PMS statistics.
Department of Health populations adjusted for age and need using the GMS non cash-limited component of the weighted capitation formula.
Health Service Expenditure
Geraldine Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much public funding has been spent on health in Morecambe and Lunesdale in each of the last 10 years. [216780]
Miss Melanie Johnson:
Expenditure based on individual constituencies is not available, nor are data prior to 1996–97. The expenditure in Morecambe Bay Health Authority area and Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic Health Authority area is shown in the table.
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Notes:
1.Expenditure is taken from audited health authority summarisation forms and primary care trust summarisation schedules, which are prepared on a resource basis and therefore differ from cash allocations in the year. Figures are given in cash terms.
2.Allocations per weighted head of population provide a much more reliable measure to identify differences between funding of health authorities and primary care trusts.
3.Figures for 1996–97 to 2001–02 have been prepared using gross expenditure figures. Figures for 2002–03 and 2003–04 have been adjusted to eliminate expenditure which would be double counted where an authority acts as a lead in commissioning healthcare or other services.
4.In many health authorities there are factors which distort the expenditure. These include:
the health authority acting in a lead capacity to commission healthcare or fund training on behalf of other health bodies; and
asset revaluations in national health service trusts being funded through health authorities or primary care trusts.
Cumbria and Lancashire acting as paying authority for student bursaries.
5.For these reasons expenditure cannot be compared reliably between health authorities or between different years.
Sources:
1.Morecambe Bay Health Authority audited accounts 1996–97 and 1997–98.
2.Morecambe Bay Health Authority audited summarisation forms 1998–99 to 2001–02.
3.Cumbria and Lancashire Strategic Health Authority audited summarisation forms 2002–03 and 2003–04.
4.Primary care trust audited summarisation schedules 2003–04 for bodies within the above health authority areas.
Mrs. Fitzsimons: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average health expenditure per head of population in Rochdale constituency was in (a) 1997 and (b) 2004. [217369]
Miss Melanie Johnson: Information requested on expenditure based on individual constituencies is not collected.
However, the expenditure per weighted head of population in Bury and Rochdale health authority in 1996–97 was £645.61 and in the Greater Manchester strategic health authority (SHA) area in 2003–04 £1,097.30.
Bury and Rochdale Health Authority audited accounts 1996–97.
Greater Manchester SHA audited summarisation forms 2003–04.
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Primary care trust audited summarisation schedules 2003–04 for bodies within the Greater Manchester area.
Weighted population figures 1996–97 and 2003–04.
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