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Drug Rehabilitation
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many addicts were (a) accepted onto and (b) refused a place on drugs rehabilitation courses in each year since 1997. [106748]
Caroline Flint: We do not hold information centrally the number of drug misusers accepted or refused for courses in drug rehabilitation.
Drug Services
Kerry McCarthy: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding was allocated by her Department to (a) Bristol, (b) Birmingham, (c) Manchester, (d) Liverpool and (e) Leeds in 2005-06 for drug services in each city; and what each figure represents (i) per capita and (ii) per problematic drug user. [104674]
Caroline Flint: The information is not available in the format requested.
| 2005-06 pooled drug treatment budgets | |
| £ | |
Education Funding
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether her Department plans to allocate funds to innovative means of educating those not in full time (a) education or (b) training on sexual health; and if she will make a statement. [106069]
Caroline Flint:
The Department launched its new adult sexual health campaign, ‘Condom Essential Wear’ on 9 November 2006. The campaign, which is costing approximately £4 million in this financial year,
targets 18-24 year olds, who are among the most at risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections.
The campaign aims to inform young adults about the prevalence and invisibility of sexually transmitted infections, while making using a condom as familiar as carrying a mobile phone or using a seatbelt. It is an integrated media campaign including television, radio and press adverts as well as substantial public relations, partnership and digital marketing and has been developed along social marketing principles starting from the position of the consumer with the aim of bringing about long-term behavioural change.
It is one of three Government campaigns working to improve sexual health and reduce teenage pregnancy. ‘Condom Essential Wear’ complements the Department for Education and Skills teenage pregnancy campaigns R U Thinking and Want Respect? Use a Condom, the latter of which also focuses on sexually transmitted infections prevention. The total cost of this work across Government is £7.5 million this financial year.
Fiscal Incentives
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State forHealth what her Department’s assessment is of the effectiveness of fiscal incentives in changing consumer behaviour; and in what ways fiscal mechanisms may be used to change people’s behaviour. [106106]
Caroline Flint: All matters relating to tax are, of course, a matter for my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He will take all relevant factors into consideration when making decisions in the Budget.
Food Packaging
Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what research she has (a) commissioned and (b) funded into the nutritional claims made on food packaging; and what discussions she has had with the Department of Trade and Industry on controls on (i) advertising and (ii) marketing of products. [107527]
Caroline Flint: The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has been leading on negotiations on a new European regulation on nutrition and health claims made on food, which has recently been adopted and is expected to apply in the summer of next year. This regulation will require all claims to have been assessed and authorised before they can be used and will set conditions a product must meet in order to bear a claim.
To inform the development of this legislation the FSA commissioned and funded a number of projects including research into consumer understanding of claims and substantiation of vitamin and mineral function statements. The FSA has consulted widely on the development of the regulation, including with the Department of Trade and Industry.
Genito-urinary Clinics
Mr. Lansley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many attendances there have been at genito-urinary medicine clinics of (a) men and (b) women in each year since 1997, broken down by those aged
(i) under 16, (ii) 16 to 24, (iii) 25 to 44 and (iv) 45 years and over. [106128]
Caroline Flint: Information by age group is not available for attendances at GUM clinics. Data on gender are only available since 2003 and are shown in the following table.
| Number of all attendances (including follow-up patients) at GUM clinics from 1997 to 2005 in England | |||
| Total of attendances | |||
| Female | Male | Male and Female | |
| Source of data: KC60 returns, England. | |||
Gluten-free Food
Ms Keeble: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many primary care trusts in the East Midlands provide gluten-free food on prescription. [106832]
Caroline Flint: All primary care trusts in the NHS East Midlands area provided gluten free products on prescription in 2005-06.
Good Hope Hospital
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time was in accident and emergency at Good Hope hospital in each of the last ten years. [107639]
Andy Burnham: The Department does not collect data at the level of individual hospitals. Information on the percentage of patients admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours of their arrival at accident and emergency (A&E) departments was first published for the period July to September 2002-03. This continues to be published quarterly. The information available for the Good Hope hospital national health service trust is shown in the following table.
Total time spent in A&E from arrival to admission, transfer or discharge, Good Hope hospitals NHS trust, quarter 2 2002-03 to quarter 2 2006-07.
Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many operations have been carried out at Good Hope hospital in each of the last ten years. [107640]
Caroline Flint: The information requested is not available in the format required. However, the count of all in-patient procedures for the Good Hope hospital NHS trust for 1995-96 to 2004 is in the following table.
| Total procedures | |
| Notes: Total procedures. These figures represent a count of all FCE’s where the procedure was mentioned in any of the 12 (four prior to 2002-03) operation fields in a HES record. In-patients. In-patients are defined as patients who are admitted to hospital and occupy a bed, including both admissions where an overnight stay is planned and day cases. Many operations take place in an outpatient setting and HES does not capture these figures therefore do not represent the total number of operations performed by this trust. Ungrossed Data. Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed) Source: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), The Information Centre for Health and Social Care | |
GP Guidance
Geraldine Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether she issues guidance to general practitioners on the criteria they should use when determining whether a patient is referred to a clinical assessment and treatment support service or secondary NHS care. [107846]
Caroline Flint: Guidance on referral management centres and other similar arrangements was set out in the commissioning framework published on 13 July 2006.
Hand-rolled Tobacco
Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions she has had with the Chief Medical Officer on trends in the use of hand rolled tobacco; and if she will make a statement. [103177]
Caroline Flint: The Secretary of State is very concerned about the increasing use of hand-rolled cigarettes, particularly counterfeit or contraband products, and has made this concern known to the Chief Medical Officer. Research by the national health service stop smoking helpline this year found that24 per cent. of regular smokers now smoke roll-ups, a rise from 11 per cent. in 1990. The use of hand-rolled tobacco had become increasingly popular among teenagers. This finding is in line with a 2006 World Health Organization poll which reported that the number of those using hand-rolled tobacco has doubled since 1990 and that one in four smokers worldwide now smokes hand-rolled cigarettes.
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