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Primary Care Trusts

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the letter of 10 May 2006 from the acting chief executive of the NHS on the Operating Framework for 2006-07, Gateway reference 6509, whether all contracts between primary care trusts and providers setting out agreed service requirements and shared activity plans have been signed. [80790]

Andy Burnham: The information requested is not held centrally.

Private Sector Contracts

Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many routine operations have been performed by the private sector for NHS patients in each year since 1997. [61721]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: Information is not available relating to operations commissioned locally from the private sector. Information on the number of elective procedures performed by centrally procured independent sector schemes from 2003-04 is shown in the table.

	Procedures
2003-04	3,663
2004-05	36,580
2005-06	52,333
Note: Data prior to 2003-04 is not available. Source: Department of Health.

Prostate Cancer

Mr. David Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment her Department has made of the efficacy of the use of Docetaxel in the treatment of prostate cancer. [79414]

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Andy Burnham: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has conducted an appraisal of Docetaxel for the treatment of hormone refractory prostate cancer and published its guidance to the national health service on 28 June

Recombinant Factor VII

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the answer of 3 May 2006, Official Report, column 1708W, on recombinant factor VII, what funding her Department is providing for 2006-07; and what funding will be made available for 2007-08 and beyond. [75194]

Caroline Flint: For 2006-07, the moneys previously included within central budgets for allocation to the national health service have now been included as a block sum for strategic health authorities to manage. To ensure that the desired outcomes are achieved this is accompanied by a service level agreement.

We are committed to this area of patient treatment and continue to consider the long-term funding implications.

Residential Care

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many adults were placed in residential care out of area in the last year for which figures are available; and what proportion of state-funded placements this figure represented. [81686]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: The number of adult supported residents placed outside their local authority in England was 48,900 at 31 March 2005. This represented 18 per cent. of the total council supported residents in England.

Severalls Hospital, Colchester

Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when the former Severalls Hospital at Colchester will be put on the market for sale; and when she expects the sale to be completed. [77864]

Yvette Cooper: I have been asked to reply.

The former Severalls Hospital was included in the portfolio of 96 sites acquired by English Partnerships on 6 April 2005 from the Department of Health. I understand English Partnerships anticipates marketing the site in September/October of this year with a view to completing a sale by the summer of 2007.

Stem Cell Research

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what (a) human embryo and (b) embryonic stem cell research projects are being supported from public funds; at which research establishments such research is being conducted; how much has been allocated annually to each project; and which researcher is in charge of each project. [81282]

Andy Burnham: This information is not collected centrally.

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Waiting Lists/Times

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of patients admitted to out-patient waiting lists by their general practitioner were seen within 13 weeks in each year since 1990. [80786]

Andy Burnham: The figures are shown in the table. Commissioner-based out-patient waiting times figures are only available from June 1997.

Percentage of general practitioner referrals for first out-patient appointment seen within 13 weeks (commissioner-based)
	Quarter	Percentage of patients seen in under 13 weeks	Total number of patients seen in quarter
1997	June	83.5	1,757,243
1998	March	80.7	1,790,658
1999	March	77.0	1,876,685
2000	March	73.4	1,968,469
2001	March	75.6	2,046,691
2002	March	74.4	2,065,774
2003	March	76.5	2,002,030
2004	March	80.1	2,022,454
2005	March	84.0	1,929,415
2006	March	95.8	1,951,789
Source: QM08.

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people waited for treatment on an (a) in-patient and (b) out-patient waiting list in each year since 1979. [80806]

Andy Burnham: The information requested is shown in the table. Note that the full out-patient list was collected for the first time in April 2004.

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Number of patients on in-patient and out-patient waiting lists, 1997 to 2006 (provider-based)
As at March each year	In-patient ordinary	Day case	Total	Out-patient
1979	752,422	—	752,422	—
1980	664,919	—	664,919	—
1981	628,333	—	628,333	—
1982	622,480	—	622,480	—
1983	726,186	—	726,186	—
1984	692,945	—	692,945	—
1985	674,453	—	674,453	—
1986	673,107	—	673,107	—
1987(1)	687,945	—	687,945	—
1988	717,892	158,354	876,246	—
1989	741,822	180,854	922,676	—
1990	746,694	212,282	958,976	—
1991	729,061	219,182	948,243	—
1992	663,264	254,453	917,717	—
1993	664,681	330,293	994,974	—
1994	655,287	410,082	1,065,369	—
1995	582,642	461,409	1,044,051	—
1996	540,037	507,992	1,048,029	—
1997	566,588	591,416	1,158,004	—
1998	593,042	704,620	1,297,662	—
1999	508,657	564,203	1,072,860	—
2000	502,174	534,892	1,037,066	—
2001	494,334	512,393	1,006,727	—
2002	499,954	535,411	1,035,365	—
2003	462,730	529,345	992,075	—
2004	407,606	498,147	905,753	(2)1,379,502
2005	350,762	470,960	821,722	1,322,685
2006	304,107	480,447	784,554	1,165,659
(1) Prior to 1988, in-patient waiting list did not include day case admissions. (2 )Figure quoted for April 2004. Total number waiting for out-patient appointment not collected prior to April 2004. Source: KH07 and QM08.

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