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All other non prioritised PFI schemes over £10 million by financial and operational (defined as first patient) date
Strategic health authority	NHS trust	Financial close/tender award date	Operational date	Capital value (£ million)
London	Queen Mary’s Sidcup	11 December 1998	30 March 2000	15
East Midlands	Nottingham University Hospitals -QMC	24 May 1999	1 October 2000	17
South East Coast	Sussex Partnership	24 June 1999	31 January 2001	22
West Midlands	North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare	8 December 1999	1 September 2001	28
London	Oxleas	4 July 2000	20 December 2001	11
London	North East London Mental Health	4 July 2000	4 March 2002	11
West Midlands	Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health	15 August 2000	18 March 2002	18
South West	Cornwall Partnership—Bodmin	31 October 2000	1 June 2002	10
London	East London and The City Mental Health—Newham	5 September 2000	11 June 2002	15
East of England	Luton and Dunstable	21 November 2000	9 September 2002	15
North East	Northumbria Healthcare—Wansbeck	16 November 2000	25 March 2003	18
East of England	Royston, Buntingford and Bishop Stortford PCT	4 May 2001	28 April 2003	15
West Midlands	Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals	20 March 2002	23 June 2003	13
North East	Northumbria Healthcare—Hexham	27 April 2001	12 July 2003	29
South East coast	Guildford and Waverley PCT—Farnham	29 October 2001	1 November 2003	29
North East	County Durham and Darlington Acute Hospitals—Chester-le-street	30 May 2002	18 November 2003	10
South Central	Newbury and Community PCT	4 July 2002	1 March 2004	19
South West	Mid Devon PC— Tiverton	1 July 2002	25 May 2004	10
Yorkshire and the Humber	Leeds Teaching Hospitals—Wharfedale	20 September 2002	4 November 2004	14
North East	Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys—West Park	4 July 2003	13 December 2004	16
London	Brent PCT—Willesden	5 December 2002	21 April 2005	21
Yorkshire and the Humber	Doncaster and South Humber Healthcare	11 August 2003	6 June 2005	15
Yorkshire and the Humber	North Kirklees PCT	21 April 2004	14 November 2005	27
West Midlands	Sandwell and W Birmingham Hospitals—City Hospital	9 December 2002	28 November 2005	26
London	Wandsworth PCT—Queen Mary's Roehampton	6 May 2004	10 March 2006	75
South Central	Buckinghamshire Hospitals—Stoke Mandeville	21 May 2004	15 April 2006	47
North East	Northumberland, Tyne and Wear—Morpeth	10 May 2004	15 May 2006	32
South West	Salisbury Health Care	4 March 2004	19 May 2006	24
North East	East Lancashire Hospitals—Burnley	13 October 2003	23 May 2006	30
London	Newham University Hospital	27 January 2004	8 July 2006	55

Pharmacies

Mr. Paice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of parishes in (a) rural and (b) urban areas have a pharmacy. [85133]

Andy Burnham: This information is not held centrally.

Physiotherapists

Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) which NHS trusts are recruiting new junior physiotherapists in 2006-07; [87409]

(2) how many people have qualified as physiotherapists in each of the past five years; and what proportion of those are employed in the NHS. [87410]

Ms Rosie Winterton: This information is not collected centrally.

Preventative Health Spending

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether she has established an expert group on preventative health spending. [84465]

Caroline Flint: The White Paper “Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for Community Services” sets out a vision to provide people with good quality social care and national health service services in the communities where they live.

It sets out proposals for “an expert group to develop robust definitions and measures of preventative health spending, to report later in 2006;...”(Paragraph 6.34).

The national reference group for health and wellbeing is being established which will take forward this and other related White Paper commitments. Membership and remit of the group will be published when discussions with stakeholders are complete.

Primary Care Trusts

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 13 February 2006, Official Report, column 1792W, on primary care trusts, what the overall level of investment in enhanced services by primary care trusts (PCTs) was in 2005-06; what the originally planned level of national investment in enhanced services by PCTs was; and if she will make a statement. [85828]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The overall level of national investment in enhanced services by primary care trusts (PCTs) in 2005-06 is forecast to be £649 million. The planned level of national investment (known as the enhanced service floor) was £676 million.

Any issues raised by either PCTs or their local medical committee regarding enhanced service investment can, if all local routes have been exhausted, be referred to the jointly chaired NHS Employers/General Practitioners Committee Implementation Coordination Group for advice.

Road Accidents (Compensation)

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much money was recovered by hospitals from insurers towards the cost of treatment of persons injured in road accidents in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available. [83767]

Ms Rosie Winterton: Hospitals have for more than 70 years been able to recover the costs of providing treatment to the victims of road traffic accidents where the injured person successfully claims personal injury compensation from the person responsible for causing the injury, through their insurer. However, the Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Act 1999 introduced a streamlined, centralised recovery scheme, operated by the compensation recovery unit, part of the Department for Work and Pensions, on behalf of the Secretary of State. Recoveries since that scheme was introduced in April 1999 are as shown in the table.

	Amount recovered (£)
1999-2000	30,046,572
2000-01	75,847,629
2001-02	98,278,603
2002-03	105,025,336
2003-04	105,654,936
2004-05	117,504,738
2005-06	121,500

Skin Cancer

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of skin cancer there have been in each constituency in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) age and (b) sex. [86530]

John Healey: I have been asked to reply.

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.

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Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 24 July 2006:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many cases of skin cancer there have been in each constituency in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) age and (b) sex. [86530]

The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of cancer (incidence) are for the year 2003. A table which shows the number of cases of melanoma skin cancer by age and sex for each parliamentary constituency in England, for the years 1999 to 2003, has been placed in the House of Commons Library.

Speech Therapy (Children)

Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment has been made of the effects of treating children with speech and language difficulties in (a) inclusive settings and (b) on a one-to-one basis; and if she will make a statement. [87150]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: No assessment has been carried out centrally. It is for primary care trusts in partnership with strategic health authorities, local authorities and other local stakeholders to determine how best to use their funds to meet national and local priorities for improving health, tackling health inequalities and modernising services. This process provides the means for addressing local needs within the health community including the provision of speech and language therapy.

Local healthcare professionals are best placed to decide whether speech and language therapy services should be provided in inclusive or one-to-one settings based on the assessed need of each child. Both methods can have positive outcomes.

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