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The Department is committed to ensuring that comprehensive CAMHS are available to all who need them. Our vision is set out in the national service framework for children, young people and maternity services, published in September 2004.
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether the black and minority ethnic mental health network (a) has been and (b) is (i) involved in and (ii) given appropriate notice of the development, implementation and facilitation of the race equality impact assessment consultation events on the Mental Health Bill; and if she will take steps to ensure that the network is (A) involved in and (B) given appropriate notice of future such events. [72961]
Ms Rosie Winterton [holding answer 22 May 2006]: Seven events were held, attended by about 430 people across England and in Wales as part of the process of consultation to assess the potential race impact of the proposed amendments to the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005. The black and minority ethnic (BME) mental health network was involved in the initial development of the race equality impact assessment (REIA) consultation events. Due to an unfortunate breakdown in communications over the timing of the events, the network decided to withdraw their support from the events. We apologised for any misunderstanding and sought to involve the network in the events. The events were attended by a range of users and carers, including representatives from the African-Caribbean, South Asian, Irish, Pakistani and Chinese communities.
Professor Antony Sheehan, Director General of the care services directorate, is now personally overseeing this work and is meeting with members of the BME network on 19 June 2006 to discuss how to continue taking this forward. This meeting will be followed by a ministerial meeting with members of the BME network on 20 June 2006. In the meantime, the Department's REIA advisory group met on 31 May and agreed to further work on the impact of the amendments to the Mental Health Act. The REIA advisory group has met on 13 June 2006. One of the members of the Department’s REIA advisory group is from MIND, and is also the co-chair of the BME network. The BME network continue to engage as part of the wider REIA process and we value their helpful input.
Modernising Medical Careers
Dr. Murrison: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will assess the impact of planned changes in the budget for junior doctor training during the transition to modernising medical careers. [73845]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Allocations to strategic health authorities (SHAs) for 2006-07 will be issued shortly. They will include funding for modernising medical careers. The precise costs of the transition are not known as much of it will be managed at local level through the re-badging of existing posts rather than the creation of new ones. As a result, it will be for SHAs working closely with their postgraduate deaneries to determine exactly how much funding they will need to provide for modernising medical careers in their locality.
Overseas Doctors
Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many trainee doctors from (a) Pakistan, (b) India, (c) other Commonwealth countries, (d) EU countries and (e) European Economic Area countries work in the Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals Trust; [64662]
(2) how many trainee doctors from (a) Pakistan, (b) India, (c) New Zealand and (d) South Africa are working in hospitals in England. [64678]
Ms Rosie Winterton: It is the responsibility of any employer for applications for work permits. No extra funding will be allocated to national health service trusts.
The numbers of general practitioners (GP) hospital and community health services (HCHS) doctors in training and equivalents in England by specified countries of qualification as at 30 September 2005. Many doctors in this category are not in posts that are academically approved.
| GP registrars and HCHS: doctors in training and equivalents( 1) by grade and country of qualification for specified countries( 2) , England at 30 September 2005 | |||
| Registrar group | Senior house officer | House officer and foundation programme year( 1) | |
| (1) Doctors in training and equivalents is the term used to refer to people in the registrar group, senior house officers, house officers and other staff in equivalent grades who are not in an educationally approved post. (2) Excludes all dental staff. Information about country of qualification is derived from the General Medical Council. For staff in dental specialties, with a General Dental Council registration, the country of qualification is therefore unknown. Sources: The Information Centre for health and social care, medical and dental workforce census. The Information Centre for health and social care, general and personal medical services statistics. | |||
Payment by Results
John Hemming: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what formula is used for calculating payments to a hospital under payment by results. [74750]
Andy Burnham: Under payment by results, hospitals are paid according to the number and complexity of cases treated and on the basis of the national tariff. The national tariff paid to individual providers is adjusted for market forces factor (MFF), to account for unavoidable cost differences in land, labour and buildings. This could be expressed as a formula: activity x (tariff x MFF).
Prescriptions
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many prescriptions have been issued using the electronic prescriptions service in each month since it became operational. [75441]
Andy Burnham: The number of prescription messages issued using the electronic prescription service is shown in the following table:
| Date | Prescription messages |
Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham
Peter Viggers: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the projected cost is of the private finance initiative re-development of Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham. [72540]
Andy Burnham: The capital cost of Portsmouth Hospitals National Health Service Trust’s private finance initiative (PFI) scheme for the redevelopment of Queen Alexandra Hospital is £236 million. The annual payment the trust will make to its private sector under the PFI contract is £32,866,000 million, subject to satisfactory performance by the contractor and other factors such as refinancing. The contract is for 35 years; payment commences after the first three and a half years upon the successful construction and handover of the new facilities to the trust.
Work and Pensions
Advertising and Publicity
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions if he will list the 10 most expensive advertising and publicity campaigns run by his Department and its agencies since 1 January 2004; and what the total cost was in each case. [41497]
Mrs. McGuire:
The information is not available in the format requested and can be provided only at disproportionate cost. A breakdown of publicity costs for each financial year can be found in the Departments Reports’ which are available in the
Library. The 10 most expensive advertising and publicity campaigns for 2005-06 are set out in the following table:
| Campaign | Spend (£000) |
| Notes: 1. The table does not include the following as the information is not held centrally and can be obtained only at disproportionate cost; spend by non-departmental bodies, statutory bodies for which the Department is responsible or other body sponsored by the Department details of highly localised publicity activity by the Department’s customer-facing businesses; recruitment or procurement advertising. 2. All figures have been rounded to the nearest thousand. 3. All figures are exclusive of VAT. 4. Spend is recorded by financial year only, rather than calendar years. | |
Air Miles
David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many free air miles have been earned by senior civil servants in his Department in each of the last three years; and how they were used. [72867]
Mrs. McGuire: The Department of Work and Pensions does not have any scheme which collects free air miles gained from business journeys.
Benefit Recipients
Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what his latest estimate is of the number of people who are entitled to, but not receiving (a) pension credit, (b) income support, (c) housing benefit, (d) council tax benefit and (e) other benefits in Coventry South. [76527]
Mr. Plaskitt: Information is not available broken down below national level. For the available information I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave the right hon. Member for North Tyneside (Mr. Byers), on 3 March 2006, Official Report, column 1034W.
Edward Miliband: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many (a) social fund, (b) incapacity benefit and (c) family credit recipients there were on average in each and what the average award was in each year ward in Doncaster North in (i) 1984, (ii) 1994 and (iii) 2004; in each case. [68297]
Mrs. McGuire: The information is not available in the format requested. Social fund and family credit data is not available at ward level. Incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance data are not available at ward level prior to August 1999. The available information for incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance is in the following table.
| Incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance claimants and average weekly amount, by ward, Doncaster North parliamentary constituency, August 2004 | ||
| Ward name | Total claimants | Average weekly amount (£) |
| Notes: 1. Claimant numbers have been rounded to a multiple of 5 and average amounts to the nearest penny. 2. Claimants figures include all incapacity benefit and severe disablement allowance cases, including incapacity benefit credit only cases. 3. The average weekly amount does not include credit only cases. Source: DWP Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study 100 per cent data. | ||
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