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Government Departments: Property
Robert Neill: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham of 7 January 2008, Official Report, column 332W, on Government Departments: property, what the address was of each empty property listed in the answer, according to records held in the e-PIMS database. [183217]
Angela Eagle: A list of the addresses of current vacant space recorded on e-PIMS has been placed in the Libraries.
The current total area of actual vacant space (excluding sensitive records) is 208,537 m2. This represents 1.44 per cent. of the total space recorded in e-PlMS.
As e-PIMS is a live service, vacant records may have been added or removed since the answer to the right hon. Member for Horsham (Mr. Maude) of 7 January 2008, Official Report, column 332W. This demonstrates that vacant space on the Government estate is being actively managed by Government organisations that have that space.
The answer covers both properties that are entirely or only partially vacant. To distinguish between those properties would incur disproportionate cost. In the case of partially vacant properties, only the area of vacant space is given.
The sensitive marker on e-PIMS is used to protect buildings held by the security services or for other sensitive purposes. Information on these buildings is excluded from data made publicly available.
Insurance: Public Participation
Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 27 November 2007, Official Report, column 393W, on insurance: public participation, which small independent brokers were consulted by the Financial Services Authority in preparation of the report on the hard disclosure of commission earned by brokers of commercial insurance expected to be published shortly; and if he will make a statement. [172986]
Angela Eagle: This is a matter for the Financial Services Authority. The Financial Services Authority commissioned the analysis by CRA ‘Commercial insurance commission disclosure: Market Failure Analysis and high level Cost Benefit Analysis’ as a part of its ongoing review of appropriate commission disclosure on insurance sold to commercial customers. The full CRA report and the FSA program of work can be found at:
International Finance Facility for Immunisation: Cost-effectiveness
Mr. Allen: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what assessment his Department has made of the value for money of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation. [168293]
Jane Kennedy:
Vaccines are cheap and effective ways of saving lives. Diseases like smallpox, measles, and polio have already been successfully controlled or even eradicated with the help of vaccines. There are strong reasons for frontloading resources for vaccine distribution through the International Finance Facility
for Immunisation (IFFIm). When a child is vaccinated, it not only reduces the risk to him/her, but also reduces the risk to others who come in contact with the child, preventing the spread of disease.
The World Health Organisation has estimated that spending $4 billion through IFFIm without frontloading would save an estimated 2.5 million lives before 2015. But by frontloading $4 billion, twice as many lives—an estimated five million—could be saved in the years to 2015, and a further five million afterwards.
Through IFFIm funding, by the end of 2007, an estimated 14.5 million children will have been reached with vaccine against hepatitis B, and 4.4 million children with vaccine against yellow fever—saving the lives of children in the world’s poorest countries.
Lung Cancer
Anne Milton: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many cases of lung cancer were diagnosed in each cancer network in each year since 1997. [190040]
Angela Eagle: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 3 March 2008:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking how many cases of lung cancer were diagnosed in each cancer network in each year since 1997. I am replying in her absence. (190040)
The most recent available figures for newly diagnosed cases of lung cancer registered in England are for the year 2005. Figures for patients diagnosed with lung cancer by Cancer Network in England for the years 1997 to 2005 are in the table.
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