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MRSA

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the percentage of patients in hospitals in each NHS Trust in Greater London who are infected with MRSA. [214796]

Miss Melanie Johnson: Information on the percentage of patients in hospitals who are infected with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is not collected centrally.

However, national and regional information on the mandatory MRSA surveillance system is published on the Health Protection Agency's website at www.hpa.org.uk/cdr/archives/2004/cdr2904.pdf.

Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the steps which are being taken to fight MRSA at (a) Chorley and (b) Preston Hospital. [216205]

Miss Melanie Johnson: The Department takes the issue of healthcare associated infections very seriously and has told the national health service that infection control should be at the heart of good management and clinical practice.

The Department has set a target to reduce methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus" by 50 per cent., by 2008 from an April 2005 baseline. The National Patient Safety Agency launched the first national hand hygiene campaign, cleanyourhands" in September 2004. Commitments in the Chief Medical Officer's publication, Winning Ways" and the Department's action plan, Towards Cleaner Hospitals and Lower Rates of Infection" and the NHS's Matron's Charter" have focused on evidence-based actions to reduce infections.

NHS Investment (Chorley)

Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what capital investment was made in NHS facilities in Chorley in each year since 1998. [217592]

Miss Melanie Johnson: The information is not available in the format requested. The table shows capital investment in national health service organisations that provide services in Chorley.

	Amount (£000)
1998–99	3,786
1999–2000	7,021
2000–01	7,403
2001–02	18,727
2002–03	19,544
2003–04	31,469

Notes:
1.The figures in the table do not include private finance initiative (PFI) expenditure where PFI costs are revenue expenditure in the books of NHS bodies.
2.Capital investment will vary between years owing to the investment decisions at individual NHS bodies.
Sources:
1.Audited summarisation schedules of Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (2002–03 and 2003–04) and its predecessor NHS trusts (1998–99 to 2001–02).
2.Audited summarisation schedules of Chorley and South Ribble Primary Care Trust 2001–02 to 2003–04.




 
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Self-harm

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospital admissions have been due to deliberate self-harm in (a) persons aged under 18 and (b) persons aged 18 years and over in each year since 1986. [216168]

Ms Rosie Winterton: This information is not centrally available. The Department collects information on numbers of finished consultant episodes of people who have been admitted in national health service hospitals with a primary diagnosis of injury and poisoning. However, it is not possible to ascertain the number of admissions due to deliberate self harm.

As part of the implementation of the national suicide prevention strategy, three centres have been established to monitor deliberate self-harm and provide accurate data on national trends and patterns to help inform suicide prevention interventions and detect changing patterns or local variations.

CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS

Beneficial Ownership

Mr. Wilson: To ask the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs if he will make a statement on progress with the review of beneficial ownership of land. [217446]

Mr. Lammy: The report on Land Registry's Quinquennial Review, published in June 2001, recommended that consideration be given to including details of the beneficial or true ownership of land on the land register for England and Wales. In response to a previous question from my right hon. Friend on 23 February 2004, Official Report, column 217W, I announced that the planned consultation between Land Registry, the then Lord Chancellor's Department and other Government departments would be deferred pending a review of the timing of the several consultations to be carried out by Land Registry.

Following completion of this review in summer 2004, it was agreed that internal consultation with other interested Government departments should proceed with a view to deciding whether the recommendation warrants being taken forward to a public consultation. This internal consultation is still on-going. No time limit has been set for final decisions to be made although I can confirm that they will be announced to Parliament in due course.
 
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European Convention on Human Rights

Adam Price: To ask the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs when the United Kingdom Government plans to ratify the Seventh Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights. [218681]

Mr. Lammy: The Government will be in a position to ratify this Protocol when legislation revoking some obsolete family law provisions has been passed. The Government are awaiting a suitable legislative vehicle to achieve that.

Iraq

Annabelle Ewing: To ask the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs whether the Lord Chancellor was involved in (a) framing, (b) drafting and (c) drawing up the parliamentary answer given by the Attorney-General on 17 March 2003 on Iraq. [218548]

Mr. Leslie: The Lord Chancellor, the Lord Falconer of Thoroton had no role in framing, drafting or drawing up the answer.

Targets

Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Constitutional Affairs how many targets have been set in each year since 1997 by the Department and its predecessors; and, of these, which have been (a) met, (b) nearly met, (c) not met, (d) changed and (e) dropped. [215838]

Mr. Lammy: I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 21 February 2005, Official Report, column 75W.

DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER

Cleaning

Mr. George Osborne: To ask the Deputy Prime Minister what the costs of cleaning the Department and its predecessors were in each year since 1997. [213834]

Yvette Cooper: The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister was established in May 2002, since when the following has been spent on office cleaning in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (C).

	£
May 2002-March 2003	765,200
April 2003-March 2004	707,600

These figures do not include VAT or any sums recovered from other Government Departments, but do include consumable items such as toilet paper, soap, etc. The figures include all internal cleaning and cleaning of some external windows where it has not been possible to identify this as a separate cost.
 
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The cost of cleaning the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's agencies in the same period was:

	£
May 2002-March 2003	600,000
April 2003-March 2004	598,500

These figures include the Rent Service, which was an agency of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister during the period covered. It transferred to the Department of Work and Pensions on 1 April 2004. The figures do not include the Fire Service College, where theinternal cleaning costs cannot be separated from the housekeeping" costs attributed to student occupation.

This answer does not include the buildings occupied by Government offices, who carry out functions on behalf of 10 Government Departments.

The costs for predecessor Departments are not held centrally, and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

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