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Type 23 Frigate

Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence pursuant to his answer of 10 January 2006, Official Report, column 506W, on Type 23 frigates, why HMS Richmond was not included in the information provided. [44530]

Mr. Ingram: HMS Richmond has no allocated helicopters at present. The ship is currently undergoing a refit which is scheduled to be completed in June 2006. HMS Richmond will receive Merlin Mkl during sea trials following her refit.

HEALTH

Agency Staff (Coventry)

Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost of agency (a) nurses and (b) doctors has been in each year since 1997 in Coventry South. [44555]

Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 24 January 2006]: The information requested is shown in the table.
Coventry teaching primary care trust (PCT) £000

	Medical	Nursing, midwifery and health visiting
2002–03	504	0
2003–04	771	0
2004–05	359	0

Source:
Financial Returns Coventry Teaching PCT 2002–03 to 2004–05.

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire National Health Service Trust £000

	Medical	Nursing, midwifery and health visiting
1997–98	427	957
1998–99	625	1,548
1999–2000	415	2,288
2000–01	634	2,986
2001–02	888	3,144
2002–03	3,870	3,001
2003–04	5,478	1,715
2004–05	4,348	479

Notes:
1. Figures given are for the Coventry Teaching PCT, and the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, and relate to the cost of agency nurses, midwifery and health visiting, and doctors.
2. Information for Coventry Teaching PCT is only available for 2002–03 to 2004–05.
Source:
Financial Returns University Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust 1997–98 to 2004–05.



 
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Dentistry

Mrs. Moon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many children are not registered with an NHS dentist; and what assessment her Department has made of the merits of revising the provision of school based dental checks for children. [42918]

Ms Rosie Winterton: Information on the number of children not registered with a national health service dentist is not collected centrally.

As at 30 September 2005, the number of children registered with an NHS dentist with a general dental services or personal dental services contract in England was 6,927,299. This is estimated to be 59 per cent. of the total child population in England.

The National Screening Committee is currently reviewing the arrangements for the screening of children's dental health.

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the providers of each of the dental access centres in England. [43533]

Ms Rosie Winterton: Dental access centres operate under personal dental services arrangements. Therefore, it is the local primary care trust (PCT) that is the provider. The following PCTs operate one or more of the 53 dental access centres in England.

Ashford

Barnet

Bath and North East Somerset

Bedford

Bristol North

Bristol South and West

Bromley

Bury

Cambridge City

Canterbury and Coastal

Central Cheshire

Central Liverpool

Daventry and South Northamptonshire

East Cambridgeshire and Fenland

East Kent Coastal

East Lincolnshire

East Yorkshire

Eastern Cheshire

Enfield

Exeter

Guildford and Waverley

Halton

Herefordshire

Huntingdonshire

Kennet and North Wiltshire

 
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Leeds North West

Mendip

Milton Keynes

Morecambe Bay

Newcastle

North East Oxfordshire

Northampton

Oxford City

Plymouth

Reading

Rochdale

Shropshire County

Slough

Somerset Coast

South Somerset

South Warwickshire

South West Oxfordshire

South Worcestershire

Southampton City

St. Helens

Swindon

Telford and Wrekin

Walsall Teaching

Warrington

West Cumbria

West Hull

West Lincolnshire

West Norfolk

West Wiltshire

Woking Area

Yorkshire Wolds and Coast

Mr. Graham Stuart: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dentists in Beverley and Holderness have left the NHS to work in private practice in each year since 1997. [44317]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The table, provides the numbers of dentists who have left the general dental services (GDS) or personal dental services (PDS) within Beverley and Holderness constituency in each year since 1997.

However, information on whether dentists leave the national health service to work in private practice is not available.
General dental services (GDS) and personal dental services (PDS)—number of dentists who have left the GDS or PDSin Beverley and Holderness constituency as at 30 Septembereach year

	Complete leaver
1997	0
1998	0
1999	1
2000	2
2001	0
2002	3
2003	1
2004	1
2005	0

Note:
Complete leaver means the dentist had an open GDS or PDS contract in September of the previous year but no GDS or PDS contract in September of the specified year.
Source:
Dental Practice Board



 
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John Cummings: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) NHS dental practices and (b) NHS dentists there were in the Easington constituency in each of the last five years. [46007]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The information requested is shown in the following table.
General dental services (GDS) and personal dental services (PDS). Number of national health service dental practices and NHS dentists within Easington constituency as at 30 September each year.

	GDS or PDS dental practices	GDS or PDS dentists
2001	9	14
2002	9	14
2003	9	13
2004	9	12
2005	9	17

Source:
Dental Practice Board



 
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Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) location and (b) date of (i) opening and (ii) closing is of each dental school in England; and how many dental students there were at each in each of the last 30 years. [36896]

Ms Rosie Winterton: There are currently nine dental schools in England. Information on the date of opening of the dental schools is not held centrally. University College London dental school was closed in 1992. The table shows the numbers of dental students admitted to the nine dental schools each year since 1993, the years for which figures are available.
Dental school intake, 1993–2005 (England)

	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
University of Birmingham	69	73	74	69	68	71
University of Bristol	65	64	44	57	55	50
University of Leeds	52	54	52	53	52	51
University of Liverpool	50	54	48	55	51	49
Kings College London	157	156	154	149	167	142
University of Manchester	59	74	65	114	55	60
University of Newcastle	70	70	83	81	79	78
Queen Mary, University of London	57	59	53	53	52	54
University of Sheffield	51	60	54	54	53	48
Total	630	664	627	685	632	603

	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005(21)
University of Birmingham	70	69	72	75	75	81	90
University of Bristol	52	50	51	55	53	53	84
University of Leeds	55	50	54	61	55	52	85
University of Liverpool	49	45	49	52	63	60	90
Kings College London	130	144	140	162	138	142	168
University of Manchester	71	74	73	71	75	79	59
University of Newcastle	63	72	68	70	71	80	98
Queen Mary, University of London	57	63	61	55	75	58	90
University of Sheffield	53	56	58	64	67	69	84
Total	600	623	626	665	674	674	848

⁽²¹⁾ provisional data

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what percentage of people were registered with an NHS dentist in (a) Yeovil constituency, (b) Somerset, (c) South Somerset and (d) England in each year since 1995. [28223]

Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 18 November 2005]: The information requested is shown in the table.
General dental services (CDS) and personal dental services (PDS), Number of patients registered and percentage of people registered with an national health service dentist in England, local authorities in Somerset and Yeovil parliamentary constituency as at 30 September each year Number

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Registration data
England	27,147,294	23,898,728	24,118,683	24,527,730	24,297,247
Bath and North East Somerset local authority	114,364	101,669	99,742	91,237	85,386
North Somerset local authority	106,935	96,827	96,103	96,503	100,591
South Somerset local authority	107,139	94,947	94,514	91,510	87,724
West Somerset local authority	18,343	18,176	18,358	21,325	21,265
Yeovil parliamentary constituency	71,804	62,580	61,960	58,606	56,576

 
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	2002	2003	2004	2005
Registration data:
England	24,217,483	24,295,652	23,639,904	24,168,352
Bath and North East Somerset local authority	83,155	85,386	83,451	85,819
North Somerset local authority	101,010	102,404	106,115	108,022
South Somerset local authority	82,208	100,255	83,849	86,666
West Somerset local authority	22,319	22,432	24,530	23,300
Yeovil parliamentary constituency	53,658	75,527	62,093	64,707

Percentage

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Registrations per head of population
England	56	49	49	50	49
Bath and North East Somerset local authority	69	61	60	54	50
North Somerset local authority	58	52	51	51	53
South Somerset local authority	72	64	63	61	58
West Somerset local authority	55	54	53	61	61
Yeovil parliamentary constituency	—	—	—	—	—

	2002	2003	2004	2005
Registrations per head of population
England	49	49	47	48
Bath and North East Somerset local authority	49	50	48	50
North Somerset local authority	53	53	55	56
South Somerset local authority	54	65	54	56
West Somerset local authority	63	63	69	65
Yeovil parliamentary constituency	—	—	—	—

Notes:
1. The drop in registrations between September 1997 and September 1998 is mostly attributable to the reduction in re-registration period from two years to fifteen months.
2. Most PDS schemes that have registrations have a re-registration period in excess of fifteen months, so the figures for PDS schemes are generally higher than they would have been for the same attendance pattern under CDS.
3. Prison registrations are included in these figures.
4. Salaried dentist registrations are not included in these figures.
5. A dentist with a GDS or PDS contract may provide as little or as much NHS treatment as he or she chooses or agreed with the PCT.
6. The Dental Practice Board has no information concerning the amount of time dedicated to NHS work by individual dentists.
7. The areas have been defined using practice postcodes within the current boundaries.
8. Areas have been defined using the Office of National Statistics All Fields Postcode Directory.
9. Population data at constituency area are not available.
Source:
Dental Practice Board

Mr. Keetch: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of children in Hereford constituency are registered with an NHS dentist. [44613]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The information is not available in the format requested. However, the proportion of children registered within the Herefordshire Primary Care Trust as at November 2005 was 70 per cent.
 
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Notes:

1. The percentages of the population registered with a dentist (or registration rate) have been estimated by including patient registrations in the area of the dentist, that is, according to the postcode of the dental surgery and not the patient's address. So the registration rates for some areas may be affected by some patients receiving dental treatment in a different area from the one in which they live.
 
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2. Estimates have been calculated using population estimates for the nearest year for which data are available. Percentages for 2005 have been calculated using 2004 mid year population estimates. 3. Information on children registered with a dentist at constituency level is not available as a percentage of the total number of children in the constituency. This is due to population data not being available at constituency level.

Source:

NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre.

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