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Car Theft

Mr. Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many car thefts there were in each district command unit in each of the last five years. [25169]

Mr. Woodward: The Police Service of Northern Ireland records theft of vehicles and unauthorised taking of vehicles as a single category. The figures are provided in the following table.
Recorded theft or unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle

2000–012001–022002–032003–042004–05
Northern Ireland8,5639,0058,4105,3694,456
Urban Region6,2526,5795,9813,4862,908
Antrim209228263188108
Ards23231027513199
East Belfast461474640267213
North Belfast8091,003882568498
South Belfast1,7171,8371,472732646
West Belfast997669610410423
Carrickfergus86841185042
Castlereagh243354284182143
Larne4378494540
Lisburn942820757546415
Newtownabbey314390392246182
North Down19933223912199
Rural Region2,3112,4262,4291,8831,548
Armagh1281041289479
Banbridge85949810048
Ballymena10312913312066
Ballymoney3632432723
Coleraine13113613212897
Cookstown6075605950
Craigavon307362258241151
Dungannon and South Tyrone14713315011299
Down270328328205143
Fermanagh10887927553
Foyle210287265243251
Limavady8254354346
Magherafelt7946752922
Moyle2945512823
Newry and Mourne327374404280311
Omagh12571904644
Strabane8469875342

Cardiomyopathy

Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many newly diagnosed cases of cardiomyopathy there were in the Province in each of the last five years. [24856]

Mr. Woodward: The number of newly diagnosed cases of cardiomyopathy in Northern Ireland is not available.

Information is available on the number of cardiomyopathy sufferers admitted as in-patients to hospitals in Northern Ireland. The number of admissions to hospital with a primary or secondary diagnosis of cardiomyopathy is detailed in the following table for each of the last five years available. It should be noted that any individual could have been admitted to hospital more than once over the course of a year or over a number of years and would therefore be counted more than once in the table.
 
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Admissions for cardiomyopathy
2004–05593
2003–04628
2002–03561
2001–02552
2000–01501




Source:
Hospital Inpatients System DHSS&PS



Carers

Mr. Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what plans he has to implement a pay scale for carers across Northern Ireland. [22768]

Mr. Hanson: Carers have access to the full range of social security benefits, including carers allowance, and tax credits, depending on their individual circumstances, and to a wide range of services from their local Health and Social Services Trust, which are designed to offer practical support for their caring role. The Government are satisfied that targeting help in this way represents the best use of resources, and has no plans to introduce a pay scale for carers.

Child Support Agency

Mr. Peter Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the administration cost of the Child Support Agency in Northern Ireland has been in each of the past five years; and what the expected expenditure is in (a) 2005–06 and (b) 2006–07. [25167]

Mr. Hanson: Administration expenditure over the past five years is as follows:
£ million
2000–0110,256
2001–0211,380
2002–0313,500
2003–0415,023
2004–0515,046

Estimated expenditure for 2005–06 and 2006–07 is as follows:
£ million
2005–0617,464
2006–07(59)15,817


(59) Based on anticipated budget allocation.


Class Statistics

Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what percentage of those living in each district council area in the Province are (a) professionals and (b) skilled workers. [24866]

Angela E. Smith: The following table contains estimates from the 2003 Labour Force Survey local area database showing the percentage of all persons in employment in each district council area that are classified as being in professional and skilled trade occupations.
 
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Percentage of all persons in employment classified as being in professional or skilled trade occupations

District council areaProfessional occupationsSkilled trade occupations
Antrim(60)10(60)18
Ards(60)1319
Armagh(60)10(60)14
Ballymena(60)621
Ballymoney(60)6(60)25
Banbridge(60)7(60)19
Belfast149
Carrickfergus(60)10(60)13
Castlereagh(60)12(60)9
Coleraine(60)9(60)19
Cookstown(61)(60)23
Craigavon(60)10(60)17
Derry(60)14(60)12
Down(60)1321
Dungannon(60)13(60)25
Fermanagh(60)428
Larne(60)9(60)14
Limavady(61)(60)30
Lisburn(60)1215
Magherafelt(60)12(60)26
Moyle(60)14(60)21
Newry and Mourne(60)723
Newtownabbey15(60)11
North Down(60)12(60)12
Omagh(60)1831
Strabane(61)20
Northern Ireland11(60)17


(60) Estimates are based on small sample sizes and are therefore subject to a higher than usual degree of sampling variability. They should therefore be treated with caution.
(61) Estimates are not shown as they are potentially disclosive.
Source:
Labour Force Survey, Local Area Database 2003.



Clinical Negligence

Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate he has made of the likely costs resulting from clinical negligence in the Province in each of the next five years. [24861]

Mr. Woodward: The cost to the Health and Personal Social Services budget is the net impact of the provision being established for new clinical negligence cases, reduced by the settlement of existing cases. This is estimated at £11 million in each of the three years from 2005–06 to 2007–08. No estimates have yet been made beyond 2007–08.

Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many clinical negligence cases are pending within each health trust in the Province. [24862]

Mr. Woodward: The information is not available in the form requested and could be provided only at a disproportionate cost.

Compensation Agency

Mrs. Iris Robinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what proportion of cases have been considered by the Compensation Agency in Northern Ireland for more than two years before a decision was arrived at. [22637]

Mr. Hain: The Compensation Agency's electronic database was introduced in 1988. It has only been possible to retrieve information relating to claims which
 
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have been captured on that database. Claims which were in existence prior to this were kept on paper records and files which have subsequently been destroyed through routine destruction procedures.

Analysis of the database shows that the Compensation Agency has made decisions on 309,533 claims since 1988. Of these, 40,336 or 13 per cent. were made after two years.


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