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Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the likely impact of boundary changes to primary care trusts on the availability of integrated paediatric continence services. [47232]
Mr. Byrne:
The national service framework for children, young people and maternity services encourages primary care trusts (PCTs) to work with other statutory and voluntary organisations locally towards establishing integrated paediatric continence
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services. There is no reason to believe that changes to PCT boundaries will have an adverse effect on the integration of paediatric continence services.
Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) adult and (b) child patients are registered with a general practice in York and Selby; and how many were registered at each six month interval in the last five years. [56657]
Mr. Byrne: The information is not available in the format requested. Data on registered general practitioner (GP) patients is collected annually. The table shows the number of patients registered with a GP within the Selby and York Primary Care Trust (PCT) area for 200104 and the equivalent primary care groups in 2000.
Mr. Steen: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what factors she takes into account when determining the level of personal expenses allowance (PEA) provided to those in (a) residential and (b) nursing accommodation; what items the PEA covers; when she last reviewed the level of the PEA; and what plans she has for further review. [54631]
Mr. Byrne: The personal expenses allowance (PEA) was originally set with reference to the part III accommodation rates in income support and jobseekers allowance set by the Department for Work and Pensions. The PEA is periodically uprated taking into account the increase in average earnings and following discussions between the Department and the Department for Work and Pensions.
A consultation exercise, due to end on 7 March, sets out proposed changes to the regulations and guidance on charges for residential accommodation; this includes a proposal to increase the PEA from £18.80 to £19.60 per week from April 2006.
Miss McIntosh: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on the financial situation of the primary care trusts in North Yorkshire. [56862]
Mr. Byrne: The information requested is shown in the table.
The forecast outturn position for 200506, as submitted by National Health Service organisations (strategic health authorities, PCT and NHS trusts) at the mid-year point (month six), is available in the Library and is available on the Department's website at: www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/FreedomOflnformation/ClassesOflnformation/fs/en.
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost of her private office was in the last year for which figures are available. [55720]
Mr. Byrne: In 200405, the total cost of running my right hon. Friend's private office, including all ministerial private offices, was £2,570,688.
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) which primary care trusts have not yet made available to those with a clinical need treatment approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence for use in rheumatoid arthritis; [58153]
(2) what assessment she has made of the potential impact of (a) existing NHS deficits on the uptake of treatment approved by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence for use in rheumatoid arthritis and (b) payment by results and practice-based commissioning on the availability of these treatments; and if she will make a statement. [58154]
Mr. Byrne: All primary care trusts in England and Wales are obliged to fund, from general allocations, anti-tumour necrosis (anti-TNF) therapy for those patients with rheumatoid arthritis who meet the clinical guidelines issued by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
Anti-TNF therapy is already commissioned at local level under arrangements that should cover the cost of patient attendances at out-patient clinics as well as any anti-TNF drugs.
From 200607, payment by results will apply a national tariff to rheumatology out-patient clinics. The tariff will set the price for outpatient attendances and will exclude the additional cost of anti-TNF drugs, for which funding will continue to be negotiated locally.
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These arrangements are already operating in 200506 for National Health Service Foundation Trusts and other early implementers of payment by results.
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what her Department's Section 64 budget was for (a) 200405 and (b) 200506; what the average amount of section 64 funding paid to each qualifying organisation has been in each financial year; and if she will make a statement. [55956]
Mr. Byrne: The Department's budget for the Section 64 General Scheme of Grants for 200405 was £17.9 million and 200506 was £17.9 million. The average amount paid to grant recipients for 200405 was £35,500 and 200506 was £38,000.
Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether a review of the Section 64 grant is being conducted. [55958]
Mr. Byrne: Ministers agreed in 2005 to a strategic review of Departmental funding to the voluntary and community sector. The review has not yet started.
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