---

26 July 2007 : Column 1288W—continued

Conal Timoney

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 15 June 2007, Official Report, column 1383W, on Conal Timoney, from which company Mr. Timoney’s services are being contracted; what the value is of that contract; and what Mr. Timoney’s salary is. [148831]

Mr. Bradshaw: Mr. Timoney is no longer a contractor with the Department. He is engaged for the Department via a short-term national health service contract. The Department does not comment on employment terms negotiated with the NHS.

Dementia: Westmorland

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what additional community-based services have been commissioned for people suffering dementia-related illnesses in Westmorland and Lonsdale since 2006. [152892]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: The information requested is not held centrally.

It is for primary care trusts to commission services for their local populations and to work with the local health community and other stakeholders to plan, develop and improve health services to meet the needs of the community, including people suffering dementia-related illnesses.

Dental Services

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 16 July 2007, Official Report, columns 156-7W, on dental services, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that units of dental activity which were commissioned in 2006-07 but not provided by 1 April 2007 are provided by primary care trusts in 2007-08. [152220]

Ann Keen: The Department has provided guidance for primary care trusts on managing under-delivery of commissioned services in the document ‘Primary care dental contracts: Advice on managing end-year issues ’. Copies have been placed in the Library and are available at

www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_064321

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what value of dental services were commissioned, expressed as units of dental activity, in (a) the test year of 1 October 2004 to 30 September 2005 and (b) the financial year immediately preceding the implementation of the new general dental services contract. [152222]

Ann Keen: Prior to April 2006, dentists providing general dental services were not subject to commissioning arrangements by primary care trusts (PCTs). Personal dental services pilot schemes were commissioned by PCTs but units of dental activity were not then available as a contract currency for setting or measuring levels of dental activity.

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance his Department issues to primary care trusts on applying the index of orthodontic treatment need. [152223]

Ann Keen: Guidance to primary care trusts on national health service orthodontic assessments and the index of orthodontic treatment need is set out in the document ‘Strategic Commissioning of Primary Care Orthodontic Services’, copies of which are placed in the Library and are also available at

www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4139176

Tim Farron: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of people in (a) Westmorland and Lonsdale, (b) the Morecambe Bay Primary Care Trust area, (c) the North West Region and (d) England are registered with an NHS dentist. [152871]

Ann Keen: Since April 2006, patients no longer have to be registered with a dental practice to receive national health service care and treatment.

The closest equivalent measure to ‘registration’ is the number of patients receiving NHS dental services (‘patients seen’) in a given area over a 12-month period, expressed as a percentage, of the estimated population for that area. However, this is not directly comparable to the registration data for earlier years.

The numbers of patients seen as a per cent, of the population in the 24 month periods ending 31 March, 30 June, 30 September, 31 December 2006 and 31 March 2007 are available in Table F2 of Annex 3 of the NHS Dental Statistics for England Q4: 31 March 2007 report. Information is available at strategic health authority and primary care trust (PCT) area in England.

This report has been placed in the Library and is also available on-line at

www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dentalq4

26 July 2007 : Column 1289W

Information cannot be made available at constituency level without disproportionate cost.

As from 1 October 2006, Morecambe Bay PCT was integrated into Cumbria PCT and North Lancashire PCT. Information for Cumbria PCT and North Lancashire PCT is included in the above report.

Dental Services: Greater London

Lynne Featherstone: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many dental practices (a) opened and (b) closed in each London borough in each of the last five years. [153560]

Ann Keen: The information requested could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Departments: Contracts

Kelvin Hopkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 25 June 2007, Official Report, column 235W, on Departments: contracts, how much was spent on contracts awarded to external suppliers by public bodies sponsored by his Department in each year since 2001. [151529]

Mr. Bradshaw: The Department does not regularly collect data on contracts awarded to external suppliers by public bodies sponsored by the Department, including their spend. I refer the hon. Member to the answer given on 25 June 2007, Official Report, column 235W.

Kelvin Hopkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how his Department monitors contracts issued by public bodies reporting to his Department, with particular reference to the terms and conditions applied to their workforce. [151553]

Ann Keen: There is currently no mechanism for the Department to monitor contracts awarded by individual national health service trusts.

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 15 June 2007, Official Report, columns 1383-5W, on departments: contracts, what contractual advantage service category 27 delivered over service category 11. [152083]

Mr. Bradshaw: In terms of the procurement of the Framework for procuring External Support for Commissioners, there is no contractual advantage to the Department arising from the use of service category 27 over service category 11.

Departments: Land

Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what disposals his Department made of land in Hampshire in each year since 1997; and whether he required any of the land to be used for social housing. [149941]

Mr. Bradshaw: The table identifies the larger sites in Hampshire in the ownership of the Secretary of State for Health that have been disposed of since 1997.

26 July 2007 : Column 1290W

	Disposal
1997	Part of Park Prewett, Basingstoke
	Part of Hazel Farm, Southampton
1998	Part of St. James’ Hospital, Portsmouth
1999	Part of Hazel Farm, Southampton
	St. Paul’s Hospital, Winchester
	Part of Prewett Park, Basingstoke
2000	Knowle Hospital, Fareham
2001	Part of Hazel Farm, Southampton
	Part of Lord Mayor Treloar, Alton
2002	Leigh House, Southampton
2003	Part of St. James’ Hospital, Portsmouth
2004	Part of Lord Mayor Treloar, Alton
2005	Part of Park Prewett, Basingstoke
	Part of Lord Mayor Treloar
	Part of Coldeast Hospital, Fareham
	Tatchbury Hospital, Calmore
	Part Hazel Farm, Southampton

It is the responsibility of local planning authorities to identify and release land for housing as part of the planning process. This means that the requirement for the provision of social housing will need to be negotiated and agreed with the local planning authority. The Government have implemented a number of initiatives to assist with land supply for housing. A register of surplus public sector land held by central Government bodies has been established. English Partnerships reviews the sites on the register to identify those which could have the potential for housing development. As at June 2007, there were over 700 sites on the register. Sites are continually being added as they are identified as surplus by landowners and removed once expressions of interest are received after a site has been marketed.

The Department for Communities and Local Government and English Partnerships also maintain the national land use database of previously developed land (NLUD-PDL). This covers vacant and derelict land and also land in use with potential for development in public and private ownerships. Information on the sites is available from the NLUD website

www.nlud.org.uk.

In addition, English Partnerships is developing the National Brownfield Strategy which will provide a coherent vision for the future development of brownfield land to underpin national, regional and local development aspirations. The strategy will help our target for building new homes on brownfield land thereby reducing pressures on the greenbelt.

Departments: Legislation

Mr. Clegg: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what legislative provisions introduced by his Department since 1997 have not yet been brought into force; [149558]

(2) what legislative provisions introduced by his Department since 1997 have been repealed. [149587]

Dawn Primarolo: Seven Acts of Parliament introduced by the Department since 1997 include some sections and schedules not yet brought into force:

26 July 2007 : Column 1291W

Acts introduced by the Department of Health since 1997	Not yet in force
National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c.46)	Section 26(2)
	Schedule 2 Part I paras 46 and 64(3)
	Schedule 3 Part II
Health Act 1999 (c.8)	Section 61
Care Standards Act 2000 (c.14)	Section 64(1)(a) and (3)-(5)
	Schedule 4 para 5(7)(b), 12, 14(10)(b), (22) and (29)
	Schedule 5 paras 1 and 2
Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c.15)	Section 26(1) and (3)
	Section 55(7)
Community Care (Delayed Discharges etc.) Act 2003 (c.5)	Section 14
Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c.43)	Section 107
	Section 116(3)
	Schedule 14 part 6
Health Act 2006 (c.28)	Section 36(2)

18 Acts of Parliament introduced by the Department since 1997 include some sections and schedules now repealed, details as follows. Many of these were repealed as a consequence of the National Health Service Act 2006 (c.41) which consolidated much of the previous health legislation.

26 July 2007 : Column 1292W

26 July 2007 : Column 1293W

26 July 2007 : Column 1294W

26 July 2007 : Column 1295W

Acts introduced by the Department of Health since 1997	Repealed
National Health Service (Primary Care) Act 1997 (c.46)	Sections 1-9
	Sections 11-20
	Section 21(1)
	Section 22(1)
	Section 23(1) and (2)
	Section 24(1)
	Section 25(1)
	Section 26(1)
	Section 27(1)
	Section 28(1)
	Section 29(1)
	Section 31(1)
	Section 32
	Section 33
	Section 34(1)
	Section 36
	Section 40(1) and (3)
	Schedule 1
	Schedule 2 paras 3-31, 65, 69(1)-81
National Health Service (Private Finance) Act 1997 (c.56)	Section 1
Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1997 (c.24)	Whole Act repealed by Health Act 1999
Pharmacists (Fitness to Practise) Act 1997 (c.19)	Whole Act repealed
Community Care (Residential Accommodation) Act 1998 (c.19)	Section 1(1)
	Section 3(2)(1)
Health Act 1999 (c.8)	Sections 2-12
	Section 13(l)-(4) and (6)-(11)
	Section 14
	Section 15
	Sections 17-42
	Section 62(2), (3), (5) and (8)
	Section 66(6)
	Section 68(l)(a) and (4)
	Schedule 1
	Schedule 2
	Schedule 2A
	Schedule 3 paras 2(2), 8(3) and 11(3)
	Schedule 4 paras 2, 4-32, 33(1), 34-41, 70(1), 71, 75, 76-79, 81, 83, 84, 85(2)(b), 87, 88(1) and 89
Road Traffic NHS Charges Act 1999 (c.3)	Whole Act repealed
Care Standards Act 2000 (c.14)	Section 6
	Section 7
	Section 9
	Section 10(1)
	Section 22(8)(a)(1)
	Section 32(8)
	Section 44
	Section 45
	Section 46
	Section 47
	Section 49(2)
	Section 51
	Section 80(1)
	Sections 81-89(1)
	Section 89(4C)(d)
	Section 90
	Section 91-99(1)
	Section 100
	Section 101(1)
	Section 102
	Section 104
	Schedule 1 paras 9-11, 15, 17, 27(a), 27(c) and 27(d)
	Schedule 2 para 6(5)
	Schedule 2A paras 4, 18, 21, 22, 24
	Schedule 4 paras 2, 5, 6(1), 7, 8(1), 13, 14(4)-(6), 16(1), 24, 25, 25(2)(a)(1), 26(2) and (4)(1), 27(b)
Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000 (c.16)	Section 5
	Section 9(a)
Health Service Commissioners (Amendment) Act 2000 (c.28)	Sections l(2)(b), (3)(c) and (d)
Health and Social Care Act 2001 (c.15)	Sections 1-4
	Section 6
	Section 7(2)-(5)
	Sections 8-13
	Section 14(1) and (3)
	Sections 15-25
	Section 26(1)
	Sections 27-38
	Sections 40-43
	Sections 45-48
	Section 60
	Section 61
	Section 64(3)
	Section 68(2) and (3)
	Schedules 1-4
	Schedule 5 paras 5, 8, 11 and 12
National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 (c.17)	Section 1
	Section 2(1)-(4)
	Section 3
	Section 4(1) and (2)
	Sections 5-18
	Section 19(l)-(5)
	Section 20
	Section 21
	Section 22(1)-(3), (4), (8) and (9)
	Section 23
	Section 24
	Section 35(1)
	Section 36
	Section 42(7)
	Schedule 1 paras 1-35, 37, 40-43, 46, 19-53, 55
	Schedule 2 paras 1-10, 11(1), 12-37, 54, 55, 58, 64, 67-69, 72-82
	Schedule 3 paras 1-11, 14-17
	Schedule 4
	Schedule 4 paras 4-20, 21(1), 22-24, 31-33, 36, 38, 43, 44, 45 and 49-51
	Schedule 6 paras 1-15
	Schedule 7 para 5
	Schedule 8 paras 1-12, 18, 23-37
Tobacco Advertising and Promotion Act 2002 (c.36)	Section 12(4)
Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c.43)	Sections 1-32
	Section 33(2)
	Sections 35-40
	Section 76(2)(f), (g)
	Section 77(3)
	Section 79(7)
	Section 80(5)
	Section 110
	Section 112
	Section 116(1)
	Sections 170-172
	Section 174
	Section 175
	Sections 177-183
	Section 187(1)-(7), (9), (10)
	Section 188
	Section 189(l)-(3) and (4)(1)
	Section 191
	Section 192
	Schedule 1
	Schedule 2 paras 23-45, 83-85, 108, 109, 115-118, 123 and 124
	Schedule 5
	Schedule 6 para 3(2), (3), (9), (10), (14) and (15)
	Schedule 7 para 3(2), (6)-(8)
	Schedule 9 paras 9, 10, 14(1), 18(2), 26, 27(1), 32
	Schedule 11 paras 7-32, 33(1), 35-45, 61(b), 62(3) and 69-74
	Schedule 12 paras 1, 2(3), 3(2) and (4) and 4-8
	Schedule 13 paras 4, 6(a) and (b)
Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Deceased Fathers) Act 2003 (c.24)	Section 2(2) and (3)
	Schedule para 11(1)
Health Protection Agency Act 2004 (c.17)	Schedule 1 para 2
	Schedule 3 para 11
Health Act 2006 (c.28)	Section 34
	Section 35
	Section 36(1)
	Sections 37-42
	Sections 44-56
	Section 74
	Section 78(3)
	Schedule 3
	Schedule 8 paras 6, 7-11, 12(a) and (b), 13(1)-(6), 14-20, 21(a), 21(b), 22-25, 29, 34, 36, 44(5), 46-50, 51 and 54
National Health Service Act 2006 (c.41)	Section 132(9)
(1) As from a day to be appointed.

---