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Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Health for what contingencies the NHS Contingency Fund has been used in 2006-07. [121790]
Andy Burnham: As announced in our quarter three, 2006-07 national health service finance report, strategic health authorities have identified savings of £450 million through their continued prudent management of the central NHS programme budgets. These savings are available to offset the deduction made to NHS resources in the current financial year in respect of prior year overspends, so that, at quarter three, the NHS is forecasting a net surplus of £13 million.
Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Health for what reason the 2006-07 Centrally Funded Initiatives and Services and Special Allocations has increased from previous plans; and if she will make a statement. [121815]
Andy Burnham:
Full year 2006-07 information on centrally funded initiatives services and special allocations is not yet available but will be published in the 2006-07 Departmental Report, that has an
estimated publishing date of May 2007. The report will provide a breakdown of the centrally funded initiatives services and special allocations main budget lines.
Mr. Whittingdale: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the per capita funding for each primary care trust in England (a) is in 2006-07 and (b) will be in 2007-08. [122300]
Andy Burnham: This information has been placed in the Library for the 303 primary care trusts to which the allocations were made. The number of PCTs reduced from 303 to 152 on 1 October 2006.
Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which non-executive members of the Sandwell and West Birmingham Acute Hospital Trust board reside in the catchment area of the trust; and which do not. [120936]
Ms Rosie Winterton: The appointment of non-executive directors of national health service trusts has been delegated to the Appointments Commission. I have asked Sir William Wells, Chairman, to write to the hon. Member with the detailed information requested.
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the 500 primary care centres which have been built since 1997, as stated on page three of her Departments National Director for Primary Cares report, Keeping it personalclinical case for change, published on 5 February. [123132]
Andy Burnham: The information requested is not collected centrally. Returns provided by strategic health authorities (SHAs) do not record details of individual primary care centres, only the number created in each SHA.
Mr. Dunne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the original cost was of the fixed price contract for redevelopment of Russells Hall hospital; and what the final cost was following completion of the contract; [122080]
(2) how the final cost of the contract for redevelopment of Russells Hall hospital was funded. [122090]
Andy Burnham: At contract signature (May 2001) the unitary charge (the annual payment by Dudley group of hospitals national health service trust to its private sector partner for construction and provision of long term support services) for the private finance initiative contract for the redevelopment of Russells Hall hospital was £26.7 million. Subsequent increases resulting from a variation to the pathology contract; an extension to information technology services; support services (maintenance, cleaning etc) for additional buildings and equipment required by the trust; and the annual inflationary uplift has increased this to £30 million.
In addition, the trust and its private sector partner, Summit Healthcare (Dudley) Ltd. agreed to a one-off settlement in respect of the cost of providing the additional buildings and equipment. This is being funded through a combination of the Department increasing the revenue allocation for the trust and providing additional capital.
Derek Wyatt: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when the most recent dermatology clinic was held at Sheppey Community Hospital. [119812]
Ms Rosie Winterton: This is a matter for the local national health service and this information is not held centrally.
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many alcohol-related deaths there were in the last year for which figures are available, broken down by (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority area. [124980]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, date 2 March 2007:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many alcohol-related deaths there were in the last year for which figures are available, broken down by (a) parliamentary constituency and (b) local authority area. I am replying in her absence. (124980)
The attached table provides the number of deaths with an alcohol-related underlying cause in each parliamentary constituency in England and Wales, in 2005 (the latest year available). A copy has been placed in the House of Commons Library.
The number of deaths with an alcohol-related underlying cause in each local authority district in England and Wales, in 2005 (the latest year available), was provided in the Answer to Question 95456, which can be found in Hansard No. 450 of October 2006, col. 1627.
Justine Greening: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how much was spent on (a) involuntary and (b) voluntary staff exit schemes in (i) his Department and (ii) each agency of the Department in each year since 1997-98; how much is planned to be spent in 2007-08; and if he will make a statement. [123872]
John Healey [holding answer 27 February 2007]: The costs of early severance and early retirement for the Treasury and the Debt Management Office, its executive agency, for the completed financial years from 1997-98 to date are as follows. An analysis of the costs between voluntary and involuntary schemes could be provided only at disproportionate cost. Estimates of 2007-08 costs are not available.
£000 | ||
Treasury | Debt Management Office | |
Note: The DMO was formed on 1 April 1998. |
Mr. Evans: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people have come to the UK to reside from (a) the Czech Republic, (b) Estonia, (c) Cyprus, (d) Latvia, (e) Lithuania, (f) Hungary, (g) Malta, (h) Poland, (i) Slovenia, (j) Slovakia, (k) Bulgaria and (l) Romania since the accession to the EU of the country concerned. [124091]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 2 March 2007:
The National Statistician has been asked to a reply to your question concerning how many people have come to reside from a) the Czech Republic, b) Estonia, c) Cyprus, d) Latvia, e) Lithuania, f) Hungary, g) Malta, h) Poland, i) Slovenia, j) Slovakia, k) Bulgaria and 1) Romania since the accession to the EU of the country concerned. I am replying in her absence. (124091)
The Office for National Statistics uses the UN definition of an international migrant as someone who changes their country of usual residence for at least a year so that the country of destination effectively becomes the country of usual residence.
Total International Migration (TIM) estimates of citizens from these countries since they acceded to the EU are shown in the attached table. The data covers 2004 and 2005 calendar years combined. More recent data are not yet available. Therefore, it is not yet possible to provide post-accession TIM estimates of Bulgarian and Romanian citizens as they only acceded to the European Union on 1 January 2007.
Mr. Evans: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the average life expectancy was in (a) the UK, (b) Lancashire and (c) Ribble Valley in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2006. [124307]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 2 March 2007:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent question asking what the average life expectancy was in (a) the UK, (b) Lancashire and (c) Ribble Valley in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2006.I am replying in her absence. (124307)
Life expectancy figures are calculated as three year rolling averages, for the UK, government office regions and local authorities. The attached table provides the period life expectancy at birth for men and women in (a) the UK, (b) the North West government office region, which includes the county of Lancashire, and {c) Ribble Valley local authority district, in (i) 1996-98 and (ii) 2003-05 (the latest period available).
Table 1: period life expectancy at birth( 1) , UK, North West government office region, Ribble Valley local authority district, 1996-98 and 2003-05( 2,3) | ||||
Years of life | ||||
Male | Female | |||
Year( 3) | Life expectancy | 95 per cent. confidence interval( 4) | Life expectancy | 95 per cent. confidence interval( 4) |
(1) Period life expectancy at birth is an estimate of the average number of years a newborn baby would survive if he or she experienced the areas age-specific mortality rates for that time period throughout his or her life. The figure reflects mortality among those living in the area in each time period, rather than mortality among those born in each area. It is not therefore the number of years a baby born in the area in each time period could actually expect to live, both because the death rates of the area are likely to change in the future and because many of those born in the area will live elsewhere for at least some part of their lives. (2) Using government office region and local authority boundaries as of 2006 for all the years shown. (3) Three year rolling averages, based on deaths registered in each year and mid-year population estimates. (4) Confidence intervals are a measure of the statistical precision of an estimate and show the range of uncertainty around the estimated figure. Calculations based on small numbers of events are often subject to random fluctuations. As a general rule, if the confidence interval around one figure overlaps with the interval around another, we cannot say with certainty that there is more than a chance difference between the two figures. The confidence interval for life expectancy for the UK as a whole is less than 0.1 years. |
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