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Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) mean and (b) median waiting time was for an (i) in-patient and (ii) out-patient appointment in each year since 1990, broken down by region. [78015]
Andy Burnham: Data on the median and mean waiting time, broken down by strategic health authority have been placed in the Library.
The Department does not hold information on median and mean waits on an equivalent commissioner basis prior to 1995 for inpatients and 1997 for outpatients.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time to be seen by a consultant was for people in (a) Yeovil constituency, (b) Somerset, (c) the South West and (d) England in 2005-06, broken down by clinical conditions. [83389]
Andy Burnham: Median waiting times as at 31 March 2006 by consultant specialty have been placed in the Library. Data are provided for South Somerset Primary Care Trust (PCT) (which includes Yeovil), PCTs in Somerset, and strategic health authorities in the South West.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people are on waiting lists for (a) heart, (b) lung, (c) liver and (d) kidney operations in Yeovil constituency NHS hospitals. [83811]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: Information is not available in the format requested. However, as waiting times information is collected by speciality, the number of people waiting for cardiothoracic surgery and urology in the South Somerset Primary Care Trust (PCT) area is shown in the following table. Figures are for March 2006.
| South Somerset PCT | |
| Number | |
Wasp/Bee Stings
Mark Tami: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people (a) received hospital treatment for and (b) died as a result of wasp and bee stings in each of the last five years. [71618]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The information requested is shown in the following tables. It is not possible directly to compare the two sets of data as one relates to calendar years while the other relates to financial years.
| Number of finished consultant episodes and estimated numbers of hospital patients admitted due to contact with hornets, wasps or bees in England | ||
| Financial year | Total episodes | Total patients |
| Source: The Information Centre for health and social care, using hospital episode statistics data, ICD-10 cause code X23. | ||
| Deaths from accidental contact with hornets, wasps or bees in England | |
| Calendar year | Number |
| Source: Office for National Statistics, using ICD-9 cause code E905.3 for the year 2000 and ICD-10 cause code X23 from 2001 onwards. | |
Northern Ireland
Parliamentary Questions
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many parliamentary questions tabled to his Department were awaiting a reply on 10 July 2006; which of those had been waiting longer than (a) two and (b) three weeks for a reply; and what the reason for the delay was in each case. [85198]
Mr. Hain: From the beginning of the current parliamentary Session to 10 July 2006, 6,874 parliamentary questions have been tabled to my Department. On that date 174 of these were awaiting reply; 30 are unanswered between two and three weeks of tabling and 80 unanswered in over three weeks.
Of those over three weeks old on 10 July, most were tabled in June and many will now have been answered.
Delays in answering parliamentary questions can occur for a variety of reasons, from complications arising from the need to request information from external agencies and organisations to pressures on staff when dealing with such a large volume.
The Northern Ireland Office aims to ensure that Members receive a substantive response to their named day question on the named day and to endeavour to answer ordinary written questions within a working week of being tabled. Unfortunately, this is not always possible but my Department makes every effort to achieve these time scales.
Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Centre
Dr. Alasdair McDonnell:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what factors underlay the
decision to withdraw funding from the Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Centre in Belfast; and if he will make a statement. [84926]
Paul Goggins: The Government are committed to funding quality services which provide the best possible support for victims of rape and sexual violence in Northern Ireland. The latest financial verification report on the Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Centre (NI) Ltd. indicates that the organisation is still failing to comply with the terms and conditions to which its funding is subject. This funding will be directed into quality services for victims of rape and sexual violence.
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