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NORTHERN IRELAND

Acute Hospitals

Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what policy each acute hospital in Northern Ireland has regarding smoking within the precincts of their premises. [56353]

Mr. Woodward: Currently Trusts operate a variety of polices regarding smoking within the precincts of their premises as outlined in the following table.

All Trusts not currently operating smoke-free policies will be undertaking a review of their policies with the aim of bringing them into line with the smoke-free legislation, due to be introduced in April 2007.

Trust	Current smoking policy
Royal Group of Hospitals Trust	Smoking is permitted in a number of designated areas.
Belfast City Hospitals Trust	Smoking is forbidden within all Trust facilities.
Altnagelvin Hospital HSS Trust	Two designated smoking areas exist outside of the main building for patients who wish to smoke. One designated area within the buildings is used by staff, this area is away from patient and public areas.
Down Lisburn HSS Trust	Smoking is not permitted in any enclosed facilities except in exceptional circumstances.
Ulster Community and Hospitals HSS Trust	Smoking is prohibited in all areas of the Trust premises, grounds and Trust vehicles.
Craigavon Area Hospital Group HSS Trust	Smoking is not permitted in any Trust Building, including at entrances and exits or in any Trust vehicles.
Green Park HSS Trust	Smoking is currently permitted in a number of designated smoking rooms and within the grounds.
Newry and Mourne HSS Trust	Smoking is not permitted in any enclosed facilities except in exceptional circumstances.
Mater Infirmorum HSS Trust	Smoking is not permitted in any enclosed facilities except in exceptional circumstances.
Causeway HSS Trust	Smoking is not permitted in any enclosed facilities except in exceptional circumstances.
United Hospitals HSS Trust	Smoking is forbidden within all Trust facilities.
Sperrin Lakeland HSS Trust	Smoking is permitted in a number of designated areas.

 
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Ballymena-Londonderry Rail Line

Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many (a) accidents and (b) deaths and injuries resulting from them have occurred on the rail line between Ballymena and Londonderry in each of the last five years. [56166]

Mr. Woodward: Translink has advised that there have been a total of four accidents on the rail line between Ballymena and Londonderry over the five year period with details of fatalities and injuries as follows:

	Number of accidents	Killed	Injured
2005	0	0	0
2004(35)	3	3	0
2003	0	0	0
2002(36)	1	0	7
2001	0	0	0

⁽³⁵⁾One person died when the car they were driving was struck at a level crossing (Woodstown Crossing); one person died (suicide) when they fell from a train door (Galdanagh Crossing, Killagan); one member of staff died when he fell from a moving train (Eglinton).
⁽³⁶⁾One member of staff seriously injured and six passengers slightly injured when a train derailed after striking a boulder that had dislodged from an adjacent cliff face (Downhill).

Block Grant

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the block grant for Northern Ireland was in each of the last 30 years in real terms at today's prices; and what the percentage change was in each year. [55574]

Angela E. Smith: The first full year of block grant allocations for Northern Ireland was 2000–01. The figures, based on those taken from the audited Public Income and Expenditure Accounts, are shown in the table.

Financial year	Block Grant(37)	Percentage increase
2000–01	8,402,893,197
2001–02	8,857,618,663	+5.41
2002–03	8,370,250,791	-5.50
2003–04	8,892,846,485	+6.24
2004–05	9,162,741,500	+3.03

⁽³⁷⁾Stated in real terms using the GDP Deflator.

Car Ownership

Chris Ruane: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what estimate he has made of the (a) number and (b) percentage of people who do not own a car in each ward in Northern Ireland. [55569]

Angela E. Smith: It is not possible to answer the question exactly as asked. The table giving the number of people who live in households that have no access to cars or vans in each electoral ward in Northern Ireland from the 2001 Census and the percentage of the household population they represent, has been placed in the Library.

Electricity Supply (Limavady)

Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland pursuant to the answer of
 
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27 February 2006 to question 53489, on how many occasions payments have been made to consumers in the Carrowclare road area of Limavady in the last two years; and whether reasons have been established for the interruptions to electricity supply in that period. [56573]

Angela E. Smith: Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) has advised that no payments have been made to consumers in the Carrowclare road area of Limavady as a result of interruptions to their electricity supply in the last two years, as none of these lasted for a continuous period of 24 hours.

Eight of the 16 interruptions to the electricity supply in the period were the result of birds striking an overhead electric line, and possibly also another four of the interruptions where NIE was unable to identify the cause. Of the remaining four interruptions, two were theresult of third party damage, one involved planned work by NIE, and the other was the result of NIE equipment failure.

Emergency Calls

Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many 999 callouts of ambulance personnel were found to be bogus in Northern Ireland during 2005. [55788]

Mr. Woodward: The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service does not use the term bogus" in this context. However, the following table lists the instances during 2005 where an ambulance response was stopped at somepoint during the call or where no patient was transported.

Reason incident stopped	Number of incidents
Caller hung up without details	1,985
Hoax caller	4,301
No case at scene	739
Nothing found at scene	1,784
Patient absconded	210
Total	9,019

Emergency Services

Mr. Gregory Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what percentage of ambulance emergency callouts from each main ambulance station in Northern Ireland during 2005 was accounted for by bogus telephone calls. [56356]

Mr. Woodward: The following table provides date for all Northern Ireland Ambulance Service locations from which A&E ambulances are sent to emergency calls. Data shown for control areas refer to incidents to which rapid response vehicles or officers' cars have responded.

A&E ambulance home station	Total calls	Calls where ambulance recalled or no patient transported	Percentage
Altnagelvin Ambulance Station	6,690	198	3
Antrim Ambulance Station	3,185	76	2
Ardoyne Ambulance Station	9,053	304	3
Armagh Ambulance Station	3,008	101	3
Ballycastle Ambulance Station	861	16	2
Ballymena Ambulance Station	4,456	95	2
Ballymoney Ambulance Station	1,716	42	2
Banbridge Ambulance Station	892	32	4
Bangor Ambulance Station	5,916	152	3
Broadway Ambulance Station	12,739	503	4
Carrickfergus Ambulance Station	1,828	35	2
Castlederg Ambulance Station	452	15	3
Coleraine Ambulance Station	3,335	78	2
Cookstown Ambulance Station	1,630	40	2
Craigavon Ambulance Station	5,326	157	3
Downpatrick Ambulance Station	3,277	80	2
Dungannon Ambulance Station	2,838	101	4
Eastern Control Area	1,689	52	3
Enniskillen Ambulance Station	2,495	74	3
Kilkeel Ambulance Station	765	32	4
Larne Ambulance Station	3,109	83	3
Limavady Ambulance Station	1,323	40	3
Lisburn Ambulance Station	4,693	146	3
Magherafelt Ambulance Station	1,765	38	2
Newcastle Ambulance Station	1,162	39	3
Newry Ambulance Station	3,821	147	4
Newtownards Ambulance Station	4,667	118	3
NIAS Headquarters	229	12	5
North Control Area	127	1	1
Omagh Ambulance Station	2,405	72	3
Purdysburn Ambulance Station	3,984	112	3
South Control Area	15	0	0
Strabane Ambulance Station	1,357	71	5
Templemore Avenue Belfast	5,556	129	2
West Control Area	37	2	5
Whiteabbey Ambulance Station	3,988	93	2
Total	110,389	3,286	3

 
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