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Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have been appointed to his Department outside Civil Service grades in the last 30 days. [153085]
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many press officers are employed by his Department. [153087]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: As at 1 April 2007, the Department employed 30 full-time press officers, four part-time.
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Health to which periodicals his Department subscribes. [153079]
Dawn Primarolo: The Departments library service is responsible for central purchasing of periodicals for library use and for retention by individual units using a journals supplier within a framework contract for Government Departments.
Tables showing periodicals which the Department subscribes to in 2007 have been placed in the Library.
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent by his Department on newspapers and magazines in the last 12 months. [153080]
Dawn Primarolo: The Department spent £81,134 on newspapers and magazines in the last 12 months.
Lynne Jones:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the nature is of each private finance initiative
scheme for which his Department is responsible (a) approved since January 2006 and (b) under consideration; what the planned capacity is of the facilities to be provided by each project; what the contracted or expected construction cost is of each; on what date the contract for each was or is planned to be finalised; what the planned completion date is of each; what the period of each contract is; what the annual charge to the relevant NHS trust is in each case; and what the estimated annual carbon dioxide emissions associated with each development are. [151887]
Mr. Bradshaw: The information on planned capacity construction cost (capital value), actual and planned contract finalisation, opening date, contract length, and annual charge is provided in the table. We have interpreted under consideration as meaning those schemes which were considered and approved to proceed since January 2006 as part of the Departments private finance initiative (PFI) re-appraisal exercise and are continuing with their procurements but have not yet reached financial close.
The mandatory energy target which applies to the national health service as a whole is to reduce the level of primary energy consumption by 15 per cent. or 0.15 MtC (million tonnes carbon) from March 2000s level by March 2010. To achieve this individual NHS bodies must achieve energy usage targets of between 33 and 55 GJ/100cu.m per annum (Gigajoules/100 Cubic Metres) for all new capital developments and major redevelopments or refurbishments; and that all existing facilities should achieve energy usage of between 55 and 65 GJ/100cu.m per annum.
If energy provisions are included in a PFI scheme then they must comply with these targets. Figures are collected centrally for progress against these energy targets (which are then converted into a carbon dioxide emission figure) but only for the whole of each NHS trusts estate i.e. it is not possible to separately identify a figure for the PFI element.
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 11 July 2007, Official Report, column 1553W, on Departments: public expenditure, what items of specific guidance have been issued to departments in the last five years on the co-ordinating of particular exercises. [153526]
Mr. Bradshaw: Where we have worked with HM Treasury on issues that involve many different parts of the Department, an official within the Department is typically asked to coordinate the work. This includes a large number of small exercises, as well larger issues such as spending reviews. It would not be practical to trace everyone of these exercises over the last five years.
Mr. Hoban: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent by his Department on first class train tickets in the last 12 months. [153081]
Dawn Primarolo: The Department's expenditure on first class train tickets in the last 12 months was £3,110,108.
This figure consists of rail tickets booked via the Department's contracted agent. There are some exceptional cases where rail tickets are booked outside of the contract but these cannot be identified separately without incurring disproportionate costs.
All travel within the Department is undertaken in accordance with the Civil Service Management Code and the Ministerial Code.
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