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Written Answers to Questions

Friday 14 March 2008

Health

Cancer: Health Services

Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average spend per patient by each cancer network was in England in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. [194177]

Ann Keen: The following tables show estimated cancer spend per 100,000 unified weighted population by cancer networks between 2003-04 and 2006-07.

The information for 2006-07 takes account of network changes of the period as well as changes in primary care trust boundaries.

Information on the average cancer spend per patient by each cancer network is not available.

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Estimated cancer spend per 100,000 unified weighted population by cancer network
Cancer network	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06
3 Counties	7,352,905	8,803,135	9,605,444
Arden	5,946,311	7,869,109	8,143,444
Avon, Somerset and Wiltshire	7,322,342	7,951,176	9,110,814
Black Country	5,466,811	7,154,351	7,215,802
Central South Coast	6,454,941	7,514,424	7,905,812
Derby/Burton	6,105,247	7,651,118	8,551,917
Dorset	8,410,611	8,095,934	8,999,355
Greater Manchester and Cheshire	5,929,702	6,890,628	8,391,498
Humber and Yorkshire Coast	6,538,239	7,656,806	9,089,945
Kent and Medway	6,856,214	7,892,461	8,728,802
Lancashire and South Cumbria	6,711,127	7,616,983	8,321,579
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland	5,939,039	7,444,614	8,545,102
Merseyside and Cheshire	4,828,824	5,896,231	7,266,085
Mid Anglia	7,342,966	8,736,832	10,177,584
Mid Trent	6,986,351	8,463,279	9,501,574
Mount Vernon	5,674,107	6,666,115	7,235,566
Norfolk and Waveney	7,922,431	9,403,802	10,000,083
North East London	5,540,609	6,775,849	6,873,358
North London	6,616,266	7,800,055	8,197,962
North Trent	6,426,320	7,756,204	8,462,155
North West Midlands	5,964,855	6,310,657	7,424,388
Northern	5,951,231	7,911,981	8,598,384
Pan Birmingham	5,896,215	6,198,081	7,881,867
Peninsula	7,717,605	8,722,304	10,072,957
South-east London	5,307,468	7,329,549	7,838,521
South Essex	6,772,353	7,549,734	7,701,955
South-west London	7,460,896	7,865,838	7,994,424
Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire	7,537,915	8,442,021	8,510,842
Sussex	6,023,842	7,000,668	7,689,727
Teesside, South Durham and North Yorkshire	6,127,683	6,888,277	7,731,358
Thames Valley	6,598,528	7,547,632	8,312,444
West Anglia	6,954,469	7,868,446	9,438,327
West London	6,609,489	6,913,761	6,803,347
Yorkshire	6,832,843	8,261,949	8,664,021
Notes: 1. Figures for 2003 -04 are for primary care trust (PCT) net spend. 2. Figures for 2004-05 and 2005-06 are PCT Net spend by population. 3. Where a PCT falls under the responsibility of two cancer networks, the totality of their expenditure is included in both cancer networks’ figures.

Estimated cancer spend per 100,000 unified weighted population by cancer network
Cancer network	2006-07
Anglia	8,042,243
Arden	9,099,693
Avon, Somerset and Wiltshire	8,415,338
Central South Coast	8,543,103
Derby/Burton	8,407,591
Dorset	9,672,039
Essex	7,592,103
Greater Manchester and Cheshire	8,355,187
Greater Midlands	8,308,205
Humber and Yorkshire coast	8,824,434
Kent and Medway	8,034,291
Lancashire and South Cumbria	8,674,769
Leicester	8,304,508
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland	8,965,735
Merseyside and Cheshire	8,022,190
Mid Trent	10,037,619
Mount Vernon	6,312,047
North-east London	6,824,097
North London	7,195,893
North of England	8,524,982
North Trent	8,099,633
Pan Birmingham	8,050,154
Peninsula	7,775,190
South-east London	7,012,894
South-west London	8,717,608
Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire	9,215,183
Sussex	7,691,610
Thames Valley	8,199,193
West London	6,142,160
Yorkshire	9,139,579
Notes: 1. Figures are PCT net spend by population. 2. Where a PCT falls under the responsibility of two cancer networks, the totality of their expenditure is included in both cancer networks’ figures.

Chlamydia: Screening

Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 7 March 2008, Official Report, column 2854W, on Chlamydia screening, what performance management routes are being used by his Department; and if he will make a statement. [194384]

Dawn Primarolo: The performance management routes being used are through regular and frequent discussions with strategic health authorities who are accountable for delivery among their organisations.

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Health Services: Voluntary Organisations

Mark Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress has been made towards ensuring third sector organisations providing services in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) England are awarded three-year contracts. [193319]

Mr. Ivan Lewis: Information on the proportion of contracts awarded to third sector providers that are for three years is not collected centrally. However, the Department fully supports the expectation that Government Departments pass on the certainty of longer-term funding, where appropriate, to the third sector organisations that they and their agencies fund.

The Office of the Third Sector (OTS) has proposed a staged approach to implementing three-year funding. The Department will work between now and 31 October 2008, to establish the arrangements needed to ensure reporting in 2009 on the proportion of funding arrangements between primary care trusts (PCTs) and third sector organisations that allow for three year funding, that do not impose unnecessary burdens on PCTs.

The 2008-09 NHS Operating Framework included the message that PCTs should not feel prevented from entering into three year agreements with local partners including small and medium enterprises and the third sector that establish practical measures to maximise their capacity to deliver health and well-being outcomes.

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