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Medicine: Animal Experiments

Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps were taken to ensure that the leaflets produced by his Department and the then Department of Trade and Industry, Where do medicines come from? contained a balanced assessment of the issues concerning the use of animals; and if he will make a statement. [175620]

Dawn Primarolo: The leaflet “Where do medicines come from?” was produced by the independent Coalition for Medical Progress (CMP). The CMP is an alliance of organisations from across the biomedical research community whose task is to address public reservations that arise over the use of animals in achieving advances in medicine. CMP aims to establish better communication between the biomedical research community and the general public in the United Kingdom. The Government fully support the aims of the CMP.

NHS: Information

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he intends the full national implementation of information prescriptions to take place. [175120]

Ann Keen: Information prescriptions are currently being piloted in 20 sites across England. Using the learning from the pilots we intend to implement information prescriptions nationally in 2008.

North Bristol Trust

Steve Webb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his plans are for the repayment of the one-off borrowing by North Bristol Trust as part of its financial recovery programme; and if he will make a statement. [173771]

Mr. Bradshaw [holding answer 13 December 2007]: We have agreed with the South West Strategic Health Authority (SHA) that the one off borrowing will be repaid in full to the Department, within the next five years. The SHA and North Bristol NHS Trust are currently constructing the details of the repayment.

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North West Health Brussels Office: Expenditure

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the expenditure was of the North West Health Brussels Office in the last year for which figures are available. [176374]

Ann Keen: In 2006-07, the last year for which budgets are fully available, North West Health Brussels Office (NWHBO) received £163,800 from a range of North West Regional stakeholders including:

The NHS Public Health Networks of Greater Manchester, Cumbria and Lancashire, and Cheshire and Merseyside (each representing North West Primary Care Trusts).

North West Strategic Health Authority.

North West Regional Development Agency.

Health Protection Agency - North West.

Centre for Public Health - Lancaster University.

The NWHBO function in 2006-07 was managed by a regional stakeholder group and employment and financial matters were managed by Sefton primary care trust.

From April 2007, the service has been managed through a revised stakeholder group and commissioned on behalf of regional partners by Liverpool primary care trust.

Organs: Trade

Mr. Vara: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the extent of the illegal trade in human organs in the UK; and if he will make a statement. [175538]

Ann Keen: We have no evidence of an illegal trade in human organs in the United Kingdom. The Human Tissue Act 2004 makes it an offence to give or receive a reward for the supply, or offer of human material for transplantation. Most importantly it makes trafficking in tissue and cells for transplantation liable to a fine, imprisonment or both. All potential living donors are assessed by a Human Tissue Authority (HTA) trained and accredited independent assessor, who is required to specifically look for evidence of coercion, payment and reward. The HTA must also be satisfied that there is no evidence of payment or reward and that consent has been given before it can approve the transplant and will prosecute cases of commercial dealing or trafficking.

Prostate Cancer: Health Services

Mark Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent progress has been made in implementation of the Prostate Cancer Risk Management programme; and if he will make a statement. [175508]

Ann Keen: The Prostate Cancer Risk Management programme (PCRMP) was introduced in 2002 to help general practitioners and practice nurses in advising
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men without symptoms of prostate cancer on the implications of having a public service agreement test.

The PCRMP empowers men to make an informed choice on whether or not to have a test based on their own lifestyles and values.

An evaluation of the PCRMP was funded by the Department to help inform the future direction of the programme and the PCRMP pack is currently being revised.

A consultation will be published in the spring, with the intention of launching the revised PCRMP packs in the summer of 2008. The revision will take full account of the results of the Prostate Cancer in Ethnic Subgroups study, which showed that black men are three times more likely to develop prostate cancer compared to white men, and the new National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence clinical guideline, “Prostate cancer: diagnosis and treatment”, which is due to be published in February 2008.

Radiotherapy

Mark Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many radiotherapy fractions were delivered by each primary care trust in each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement. [175576]

Ann Keen: We do not hold information centrally on the number of radiotherapy fractions that were delivered by each primary care trust in each of the last three years. The latest national information available is in the National Radiotherapy Advisory Group Report “Radiotherapy: developing a world class service for England” which the Department published in May 2007. The report sets out fractions per linac per year, averaged across a radiotherapy department, in paragraphs 45 and 46. It showed that the median radiotherapy centre gave 7,400 fractions per linac and on average 16 out of 39 centres delivered more than 8,000 fractions per linac. A copy of the report has been placed in the Library.

Skin Cancer

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of melanoma have been reported in each primary care trust area in each year since 1997. [174681]

Angela Eagle: I have been asked to reply.

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.

Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 7 January 2008:

As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many cases of melanoma have been reported in each year since 1997, broken down by primary care trust area. (174681)

The latest available figures for newly diagnosed cases of cancer (incidence) for England are for the year 2004. Numbers of cases of melanoma in England by primary care trust in each year since 1997 are given in Table 1 below.

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Table 1 : Registrations of newly diagnosed cases of malignant melanoma of skin( 1) , persons, England and primary care organisations( 2,3) within strategic health authority, 1997-2004
Area	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
England	5,025	5,134	5,315	5,963	6,365	6,615	6,874	7,363
North East
County Durham	48	41	47	60	76	82	72	71
Darlington	11	8	29	19	14	22	27	14
Gateshead	21	15	12	22	26	30	23	17
Hartlepool	5	5	7	12	5	9	8	10
Middlesbrough	13	13	11	12	8	16	22	17
Newcastle	22	19	27	23	35	17	24	24
North Tees	12	10	13	9	18	25	14	22
North Tyneside	12	23	23	23	24	23	26	26
Northumberland	26	29	46	23	34	44	41	50
Redcar and Cleveland	14	9	12	14	15	22	17	20
South Tyneside	12	10	10	9	17	16	14	19
Sunderland Teaching	25	26	46	23	36	41	30	37
North West
Ashton, Leigh and Wigan	21	22	18	35	27	34	33	48
Blackburn with Darwen	15	5	12	15	7	17	11	15
Blackpool	14	15	23	14	21	15	23	17
Bolton	23	21	22	32	34	24	23	33
Bury	19	12	19	18	12	32	19	25
Central and Eastern Cheshire	43	59	50	67	73	69	62	85
Central Lancashire	51	41	50	57	47	77	78	73
Cumbria	68	61	72	68	57	74	75	79
East Lancashire	33	37	43	36	42	55	59	61
Halton and St. Helens	27	22	31	25	42	46	32	31
Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale	17	15	20	22	22	15	13	20
Knowsley	12	10	15	18	17	16	22	23
Liverpool	36	40	32	45	45	42	55	70
Manchester	27	25	28	30	36	44	21	26
North Lancashire	41	34	45	60	54	60	52	48
Oldham	14	22	18	14	16	26	22	25
Salford	17	15	29	16	16	11	15	26
Sefton	42	21	39	36	51	43	56	41
Stockport	32	46	37	50	40	44	49	47
Tameside and Glossop	15	27	18	26	25	29	34	42
Trafford	28	25	29	41	38	37	33	41
Warrington	12	25	18	15	16	24	21	20
Western Cheshire	11	11	27	41	39	30	32	42
Wirral	31	29	29	38	39	43	38	34
Yorkshire and the Humber
Barnsley	15	14	20	7	10	21	8	13
Bradford and Airedale	42	39	44	44	47	44	48	53
Calderdale	21	18	24	17	22	24	26	30
Doncaster	17	20	14	36	24	41	25	42
East Riding of Yorkshire	26	45	22	36	51	51	56	50
Hull	15	15	13	15	15	16	17	15
Leeds	79	76	84	72	109	105	126	122
North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus	16	12	12	18	16	16	13	23
North Lincolnshire	3	10	14	18	15	21	13	14
North Yorkshire and York	82	109	97	90	126	132	135	134
Rotherham	14	24	21	16	26	19	30	65
Sheffield	51	34	37	52	66	48	82	124
Wakefield District	22	28	28	34	46	42	54	39
East Midlands
Bassetlaw	9	19	13	12	14	11	12	10
Derby City	26	23	20	29	28	22	29	39
Derbyshire County	57	57	68	74	84	96	91	113
Leicester City	23	16	16	17	35	19	20	15
Leicestershire County and Rutland	59	39	58	91	88	76	92	96
Lincolnshire	43	63	56	74	78	79	68	114
Northamptonshire	75	86	84	98	92	100	98	94
Nottingham City	22	21	18	15	18	24	17	27
Nottinghamshire County	66	72	44	82	59	86	97	123
West Midlands
Birmingham East and North	28	23	21	31	39	46	35	40
Coventry Teaching	26	28	24	30	32	27	39	48
Dudley	16	27	38	43	34	30	38	52
Heart of Birmingham Teaching	10	10	8	7	8	7	9	14
Herefordshire	19	24	31	26	23	30	31	30
North Staffordshire	18	22	24	29	30	31	19	28
Sandwell	21	20	17	22	22	19	26	24
Shropshire County	38	32	34	22	37	26	41	60
Solihull	26	24	28	34	36	26	38	49
South Birmingham	24	33	21	27	25	43	40	46
South Staffordshire	59	84	71	56	74	102	81	68
Stoke on Trent	18	15	29	19	41	22	13	24
Telford and Wrekin	10	18	16	13	13	16	17	18
Walsall Teaching	17	21	20	19	19	30	25	23
Warwickshire	54	67	59	64	87	86	91	99
Wolverhampton City	20	15	20	20	17	24	17	23
Worcestershire	66	69	66	69	92	93	101	112
East of England
Bedfordshire	38	54	52	50	57	47	36	54
Cambridgeshire	48	68	80	85	86	84	100	71
East and North Hertfordshire	36	47	49	51	50	48	75	73
Great Yarmouth and Waveney	29	32	33	27	27	31	43	39
Luton	16	12	18	18	24	21	14	15
Mid Essex	50	32	33	49	26	27	37	35
Norfolk	87	87	92	99	110	105	126	137
North East Essex	20	47	47	64	50	50	50	46
Peterborough	9	22	14	16	19	22	20	19
South East Essex	34	42	53	45	29	28	57	50
South West Essex	39	31	27	32	31	39	33	40
Suffolk	58	75	71	66	82	89	105	93
West Essex	22	37	33	29	28	35	34	16
West Hertfordshire	55	37	56	57	57	54	55	39
London
Barking and Dagenham	10	14	10	16	17	10	11	13
Barnet	27	24	21	23	20	23	24	31
Bexley	23	33	27	33	20	23	24	22
Brent Teaching	8	13	9	18	14	15	18	10
Bromley	49	42	51	31	22	24	11	8
Camden	19	30	15	17	13	22	13	18
City and Hackney Teaching	8	7	12	11	11	11	15	10
Croydon	29	27	43	36	37	26	48	37
Ealing	12	19	19	14	21	12	18	13
Enfield	11	17	15	21	19	11	22	14
Greenwich Teaching	11	14	17	19	21	13	14	13
Hammersmith and Fulham	6	21	9	9	11	6	6	15
Haringey Teaching	12	21	9	12	11	11	16	13
Harrow	18	10	14	14	5	8	14	16
Havering	19	24	28	32	34	30	32	19
Hillingdon	11	12	9	14	10	12	5	14
Hounslow	10	6	13	7	8	16	13	12
Islington	20	10	12	14	14	10	13	13
Kensington and Chelsea	14	16	10	14	18	15	20	14
Kingston	15	18	11	19	17	24	13	21
Lambeth	12	15	19	25	15	18	14	20
Lewisham	19	12	26	14	15	13	11	18
Newham	4	8	(4)—	11	5	5	5	5
Redbridge	13	11	10	15	9	7	25	19
Richmond and Twickenham	24	21	16	18	29	17	22	24
Southwark	14	5	19	7	16	4	10	17
Sutton and Merton	40	37	30	55	38	40	46	43
Tower Hamlets	6	4	10	6	5	8	7	7
Waltham Forest	13	14	8	18	6	9	19	9
Wandsworth	22	29	24	29	34	26	29	32
Westminster	7	14	15	14	16	11	29	17
South East Coast
Brighton and Hove City	34	35	38	35	32	44	33	43
East Sussex Downs and Weald	47	52	55	66	56	62	68	41
Eastern and Coastal Kent	66	56	68	59	48	59	96	113
Hastings and Rother	23	31	23	22	14	11	12	8
Medway	35	21	26	26	37	32	43	30
Surrey	141	116	102	158	130	152	133	160
West Kent	72	62	68	71	73	65	74	83
West Sussex	116	87	106	122	128	127	117	127
South Central
Berkshire East	46	41	39	44	43	43	47	54
Berkshire West	47	61	69	71	81	70	57	71
Buckinghamshire	64	73	72	81	82	93	79	95
Hampshire	195	177	136	207	211	278	273	260
Isle of Wight NHS	26	26	12	30	34	31	44	40
Milton Keynes	28	17	27	31	33	30	23	37
Oxfordshire	73	78	108	129	138	152	109	147
Portsmouth City Teaching	30	29	15	25	39	34	31	41
Southampton City	28	13	31	31	37	46	28	41
South West
Bath and North East Somerset	34	25	34	33	44	23	36	36
Bournemouth and Poole	57	43	56	61	66	82	91	84
Bristol	37	36	49	42	56	45	58	74
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly	100	119	87	113	129	130	142	119
Devon	137	112	122	152	161	190	186	214
Dorset	75	57	86	92	118	102	104	125
Gloucestershire	44	59	72	84	92	86	81	121
North Somerset	30	16	20	30	42	45	40	47
North Staffordshire	18	22	24	29	30	31	19	28
Plymouth Teaching	46	37	23	38	60	60	66	74
Somerset	74	69	78	100	114	109	149	119
South Gloucestershire	28	30	28	26	36	24	46	48
Swindon	16	24	31	29	28	25	23	26
Torbay	19	43	21	28	39	39	37	36
Wiltshire	62	64	50	74	97	101	103	110
(1) Malignant melanoma of skin is defined as code C43 in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) (2) Based on NHS boundaries as of 2007. (3) Each primary care organisation (PCO) is listed under the strategic health authority (SHA) to which it reports. The 152 primary care organisations include 148 primary care trusts (PCTs), and four care organisations (COs). (4) Numbers have been suppressed to protect patient confidentiality. Source: Office for National Statistics

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