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Mr. Rooney: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will introduce a module on health and safety as part of the teacher training curriculum and as a professional development tool for teachers. [100371]

Jim Knight: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.

Harry Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) teachers and (b) teaching assistants were employed in (i) Redbridge and (ii) Waltham Forest in (A) 2005-06 and (B) each of the preceding five years. [96690]

Jim Knight: It has not proved possible to respond in the time available before Prorogation.

Vocational Training

Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will take steps to ensure that young people injured on practical vocational training within educational establishments are reported as trainees and not as members of the public; and if he will make a statement. [99513]

Phil Hope: Specified major injuries arising from work activities suffered by people who are not employees,
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including young people undertaking practical vocational training within educational establishments, are reportable under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 1995. The Learning and Skills Council places a contractual obligation on colleges and other providers who have the primary "duty of care" for the health and safety of learners that this duty is fully met, as defined by the Health and Safety (Training for Employment) Regulations 1990. The Government have no plans to change the legal status of young people on practical vocational training within educational establishments from members of the public to trainees.

Work Placements

Mr. Rooney: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what steps his Department takes to ensure that (a) schools, (b) colleges and (c) local authorities meet European network of training organisations standards to ensure that employers and workplaces taking young people on work placements are suitable. [100151]

Jim Knight: Work experience is our single biggest, co-ordinated engagement between employers and education. Education Business Partnerships and the Trident Trust help schools to organise work placements, including ensuring that health and safety and child protection requirements are met. We would advise schools, colleges and local authorities to think carefully about their provision if they organise work experience placements without such expert help.

Health

Accident and Emergency Departments

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many attendances at type one accident and emergency departments there were in each quarter since the quarter ended June 1997; and how many admissions to hospital from accident and emergency departments there were in each quarter over the same period. [92038]


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Ms Rosie Winterton: The information is not available in the format requested.

Mr. Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guarantees were given on the future of the accident and emergency department at the Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath arising from the Best Care, Best Place document and its conclusions. [100325]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: The configuration of local health services is a matter for the local national health service.

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average size of catchment area was for accident and emergency departments in England in (a) 1997, (b) 2001, (c) 2005 and (d) the most recent period for which figures are available in terms of (i) geographical area and (ii) number of people. [98631]

Ms Rosie Winterton: The data requested are not available in the format requested. Population data at hospital level or trust level are not collated centrally as national health service trusts do not have specific catchment areas.

Accident and Emergency Treatment Statistics

Nick Herbert: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) forecast and (b) outturn figures were for admissions to the accident and emergency departments of (i) the Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath, (ii) the Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, (iii) the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, (iv) St Richard's Hospital, Chichester and (v) Worthing Hospital in each of the last five years. [94837]

Ms Rosie Winterton: Information on attendances at and admissions via accident and emergency (A&E) departments is collected only at trust level and no forecast data are collected.

The table shows the number of attendances at, and admissions through, all the types of A&E departments at Brighton and Sussex University hospitals national health service trust, Portsmouth hospitals NHS trust, Royal West Sussex NHS trust and Worthing and Southlands hospitals NHS Trust for the last five years.


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Organisation Number of admissions via A&E (all types) Total A&E attendances (all types)

2001-02

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

13,732

113,435

2002-03

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

17,779

108,088

2003-04

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

17,721

112,695

2004-05

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

19,364

120,463

2005-06

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

20,073

124,386

2001-02

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

14,811

120,248

2002-03

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

23,996

120,641

2003-04

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

28,098

125,227

2004-05

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

28,198

129,790

2005-06

Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust

28,901

133,503

2001-02

Royal West Sussex NHS Trust

7,409

45,419

2002-03

Royal West Sussex NHS Trust

9,826

44,147

2003-04

Royal West Sussex NHS Trust

11,103

47,948

2004-05

Royal West Sussex NHS Trust

12,187

48,344

2005-06

Royal West Sussex NHS Trust

13,222

48,868

2001-02

Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust

7,809

54,298

2002-03

Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust

11,911

54,881

2003-04

Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust

12,168

56,842

2004-05

Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust

13,688

61,333

2005-06

Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust

14,124

62,026

Notes: 1. Admissions were first collected in quarter two 2001-02, so data for this year are for three quarters only. 2. Admissions via all A&E types were first collected in quarter one 2003-04. Data after this date are for all A&E types, prior to this the figures are for admissions via major (type one) A&E only. 3. Brighton University Hospitals NHS Trust was formed by the merger of Brighton Health Care NHS Trust and Mid Sussex NHS Trust at the end of 2001-02. I have provided aggregated figures for the two constituent parts of the trusts for 2001-02. Source: Department of Health dataset QMAE.

Abortions

Mr. Rob Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many abortions were carried out at (a) 21, (b) 22, (c) 23 and (d) 24 weeks of pregnancy in the UK in the last 12 months; and how many of those abortions (i) were carried out on the grounds of disability, (ii) cited disabilities of the palate and (iii) cited Down’s Syndrome. [99105]

Caroline Flint: The available information is set out in the tables.

Abortions performed at 21 to 24 weeks’ gestation: totals; totals performed under Section 1(1 )(d)( 1) of the Abortion Act 1967; and totals by selected medical conditions, residents, England and Wales 2005
Weeks gestation Total abortions

21

700

22

539

23 (2)

336

24

38

Total 21-24

1,613

(1) that there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped
(2 )includes 24 weeks and 0 days gestation

Weeks gestation Total performed under Section 1(1 )(d)( 1) Total with a principal medical condition of cleft lip and/or cleft palate Total with a principal medical condition of Down’s syndrome

21

188

(3)

21

22

145

(3)

(3)

23 (2)

102

(3)

(3)

24

38

(3)

(3)

Total 21-24

473

(3)

36

(1) that there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped
(2 )includes 24 weeks and 0 days gestation
(3) less than 10 (0 - 9 cases). Data suppressed for reasons of confidentiality, in line with the Office for National Statistics’ guidance on the disclosure of abortion statistics (2005).

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many abortions have been performed under the Abortion Act 1967 as amended by section 37 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 in England; how many and what percentage of such abortions were performed (a) to save the life of the mother and (b) where the unborn child would have been seriously handicapped; and how many and what percentage of these abortions were where the unborn child was suffering from cleft (i) palate and (ii) lip. [99253]

Caroline Flint: The number of abortions performed in England and Wales on residents of England and Wales in the 38 years, 1968 to 2005 was 5.3 million (5,289,701). Of these 23,726 (0.4 per cent.) were performed under sections l(l)(c) and 1(4) of the Abortion Act 1967. These are cases where the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk to the life of the pregnant woman, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, or where the termination is immediately necessary to save the life or to prevent grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman. 70,200 abortions (1.3 per cent, of the total) were performed under section l(l)(d); that there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped.

In the period between 1995(1) and 2005 there were 42 (0.002 per cent.) terminations where the foetus was recorded as having a primary diagnosis of cleft lip and/or cleft palate.

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what (a) representations she has received and (b) studies she has evaluated on the psychological effects of abortion since January; and if she will make a statement. [99259]

Caroline Flint: Due to the way we record correspondence topics, we cannot supply information on representations received on this topic without disproportionate cost.


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