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NHS: Fees and Charges
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost to the NHS was of road calming tolls and charges in the last 12 months for which figures are available. [170543]
Mr. Bradshaw: Information on costs relating to road calming tolls incurred by the national health service through non-emergency ambulance services and the Hospital Travel Costs Scheme is not collected centrally. It would be for the NHS locally to assume and manage responsibility for paying any costs relating to this issue.
NHS: Finance
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health for what reasons the estimated out-turn for NHS resource spending in 2007-08 on page 176 of HM Treasury’s 2007 pre-Budget report and comprehensive spending review is almost £1 billion higher than the baseline for resource spending that the NHS has been set for 2007-08 on page 207 of the document. [170189]
Mr. Bradshaw: The difference in figures is due to timing. The higher value of £87.6 billion reported in table B13 (page 176) of HM Treasury’s pre-Budget report is consistent with the 2007-08 plan revenue resource expenditure reported in the “Department of Health Department Report 2007” (Figure Al).
The baseline figure of £86.848 billion for 2007-08 (on page 207) used in the Spending Review (SR) is the earlier figure modified by latest forecast technical underspends on non-cash and a transfer from the national health service departmental expenditure limit to NHS annually managed expenditure of funding for impairments.
The approach used by the Department for establishing SR baselines is consistent with that used by all other Departments.
NHS: Illegal Immigrants
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the number of illegal immigrants (a) working in the NHS and (b) who have worked in the NHS in each of the last five years as (i) NHS personnel and (ii) contractors. [170564]
Ann Keen: It is the responsibility of employers (national health service and otherwise) to ensure that their employees are eligible to work in the United Kingdom.
NHS: Management
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many managers were employed in the NHS in the latest period for which figures are available; and how many there were in 1997. [170596]
Ann Keen: The latest published annual national health service workforce census showed there were 36,751 managers and senior managers employed in the NHS in England in 2006 compared with 22,173 in 1997.
Managers make up less than 3 per cent. of the NHS workforce. The number of managers and senior managers fell by 7.2 per cent. from 2005 to 2006.
NHS: Pensions
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the most recent estimated pensions liability is of the NHS; what estimate was made of liability in May 1997; and what estimate he has made of the projected future change in the liability. [170620]
Ann Keen: The Government Actuary’s Department (GAD) has valued the total future liabilities of the NHS Pension Scheme (England and Wales) as at 31 March 2007 to be £218 billion. The Government Actuary’s Department has valued the liabilities for the NHS Pension Schemes for the United Kingdom as at 31 March 2006 to be £189 billion.
Figures produced by the GAD for the Inland Revenue Annual Statistical Digest, for the year ending April 1998, show the UK NHS Pension Scheme liability was £79 billion. However, the actuarial assumptions underlying these figures and those of the 2006 valuation are not directly comparable and have been produced for different purposes.
GAD are in the process of preparing a detailed actuarial valuation of the scheme as at 31 March 2004 which will be published later this year and will include analysis of the factors leading to any change in valuation.
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent on NHS pensions in each of the last 12 months. [170758]
Ann Keen: The information requested for England and Wales is given in the following table.
| Month of payment | Benefit payments (£) |
| Source: NHS Pensions. | |
Over the same period, total employer and employee contributions received were £6,720,182,642.
NHS: Public Appointments
Mr. McCartney: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the (a) name, (b) employment background, (c) ethnicity, (d) gender and (e) political affiliation, if any, is of each person appointed to the boards of (i) NHS acute trusts, (ii) primary care trusts and (iii) mental health trusts in North West of England since 2001. [169211]
Ann Keen: The appointment of non-executive members to the boards of national health service acute trusts, primary care trusts and mental health trusts has, since 2001, been delegated by the Secretary of State to the Appointments Commission. The Commission has been asked to respond to my right hon. Friend.
The appointment of executive members to the boards of these bodies are made locally by each NHS organisation as an employer in their own right. The information requested is, therefore, not held centrally for executive appointments to NHS boards.
Nurses: Bexley
Mr. Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many practice nurses there were in (a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and (b) the London Borough of Bexley in (i) 1997 and (ii) 2007. [167475]
Ann Keen: The information requested is only available by primary care trust (PCT) area.
The latest figures available for the number of practice nurses in Bexley Care Trust are in the following table.
The area mentioned came under Bexley and Greenwich Health Authority (HA) in 1997, so the figures for Greenwich Teaching Primary Care Trust have been included in the 2006 data for comparability purposes.
Nurses: Foreign Workers
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which 10 nationalities supplied the greatest number of foreign national nurses in the NHS in the latest period for which figures are available. [170658]
Ann Keen: This information is not collected centrally.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council does not keep records of the nationality of registered nurses or midwives but does record the country of qualification of new registrants. The latest information is available in the document “Nursing and Midwifery Council, Statistical analysis of the register, 1 April 2005 to 31 March 2006”, which has been placed in the Library. Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council is not a guarantee of employment in the national health service and newly registered nurses and midwives may not be in the United Kingdom or working in the NHS.
Nurses: Manpower
Mr. Randall: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many practice nurses there were in (a) Uxbridge constituency, (b) the London borough of Hillingdon and (c) England in each year since 1997. [169691]
Ann Keen: The information requested can be found in the following table, which shows the number of general practitioner Practice Nurses for England, Hillingdon Health Authority and Hillingdon Primary Care Trust (of which Uxbridge is a part) since 1997-2006 (which is the latest data available).
| Number (headcount) | ||||||||||
| 1997 | 1998( 1) | 1999( 1) | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | |
| n/a = not available (1) Headcount Practice Nurse figures are estimated for these years. Data presented for Organisations in existence in the specified years. Data as at 1 October 1997-99, 30 September 2000-06. Source: The Information Centre for health and social care General and Personal Medical Services Statistics | ||||||||||
Nurses: Pay
Mr. Grogan: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how the figure of £40 per visit proposed by his Department as the level of remuneration for employers of specialist nurses or stoma nurses was reached. [167471]
Ann Keen:
The formula used for calculating the fee to cover the cost of conducting a home visit by a specialist nurse is shown on page 14 of “Arrangements under Part IX of the Drug Tariff for the provision of stoma and incontinence appliances—and related services—to Primary Care Revised Proposals. Annex A: Proposals
regarding Service Provision and Remuneration”, which is available on the Department’s website at:
Copies have also been placed in the Library.
| Fee components | Calculated value | Underlying assumptions | Source |
|
Gross annual salary of nurse conducting home visit at £48,000 |
Based on data for Grade 8A nurse from the Royal College of Nursing | ||
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