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Dentistry: Carlisle

Mr. Jamie Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) when the first cohort of new dentists will qualify from the new dental school in Carlisle; [217426]

(2) how many students are expected to qualify as dentists from the new dental school in Carlisle each year. [217428]


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Ann Keen: The new dental school at the University of Central Lancashire has four dental education centres at Accrington, Blackpool, Carlisle and Morecambe Bay where students are trained in clinical dentistry. The school admitted its first cohort of 32 students, eight of whom will be placed in Carlisle, in autumn 2007. The first students to graduate from this cohort will qualify as dentists in the summer of 2011.

Departmental Early Retirement

Mr. Redwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff in (a) his Department and (b) his Department's agencies have taken early retirement in the last two years. [217380]

Mr. Bradshaw: The numbers of staff who have taken early retirement in the last two years are presented in the following table:

2007-08 2006-07

Departmental staff

75

21

Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency

0

2

NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency

1

1


Departmental ICT

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many of his Department's staff have access to the Department's IT infrastructure at home. [216375]

Mr. Bradshaw: At the 30 June 2008, there were 2,082 information technology (IT) accounts which had remote access to the Department's IT infrastructure. This included departmental staff and other authorised workers such as seconded and contract staff. Staff can connect securely from practically any location with access to a telephone or broadband line including their home address. If a mobile telephone network card has been supplied, connection is possible from anywhere with a general packet radio service or 3G signal. To establish how many accounts are solely for departmental staff or how many staff actually access the Department's IT infrastructure from their homes, will not be possible without incurring disproportionate cost.

Departmental Pay

Mr. Redwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of staff of his Department and its agencies did not receive the maximum bonus possible under a bonus scheme applying to them in the last two years. [217374]

Mr. Bradshaw: The Department and its agencies have two sets of arrangements under which bonuses can be awarded. For senior civil servants (SCSs), pay arrangements are common across all Government Departments. The Department's senior pay strategy, which conforms to these common arrangements, explains that bonuses may be awarded for delivery of personal objectives or other short-term personal contributions to wider organisational objectives. Individuals are required to agree their priorities with their manager at the beginning of the performance year. Line managers then make recommendations for
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performance bonuses which are considered by the Department's pay committees at the end of the performance year. The pay committees, which meet annually, make the final decision on whether a bonus should be awarded, relative to the performance of others. In 2006 and 2007, 85 per cent. of SCSs in the Department and its agencies did not receive the maximum bonus possible under the scheme. Bonuses for 2008 have yet to be decided.

For staff below the SCS, the Department and its agencies operate a special bonus scheme whereby managers may award a bonus to recognise an outstanding contribution in a particularly demanding situation. This can include a temporary and substantial increase in job loading, dealing with pressures arising from temporary vacancies or job requirements, a high level of commitment and resolution to get a job done, difficulties requiring a special effort to overcome, or a contribution over and above what would normally be expected for the job and of the person, or team, concerned. Bonuses are generally small in value, but there is no specified maximum size of award. As a result, it is not possible to answer the question for this scheme.

Departmental Planning Permission

Mr. Maude: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what (a) planning applications and (b) licensing applications his Department has submitted in the last 24 months. [215535]

Mr. Bradshaw: Only one planning application has been made on behalf of the Secretary of State within the last 24 months. This was for 10 flats on a site at Woodside car park, Plymouth.

No licensing applications have been made.

Departmental Public Expenditure

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) with reference to page 148 of his Department's Annual Report 2008, if he will provide a full breakdown of the (a) central Strategic Health Authority allocations, (b) Department of Health administration and (c) other revenue budgets, noting for each how much money has not yet been allocated; [209134]

(2) pursuant to the answer of 15 May 2008, Official Report, column 1672W, on departmental public expenditure, if he will provide a break down of the allocations to central budget holders made on 17 March. [209182]

Mr. Bradshaw: The breakdown of budgets are given in the following tables:

All budgets were issued to budget holders by the start of this financial year.


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Table 1 : Central SHA allocations
Budget title Budget (£ million)

Revenue support

218

Clinical Excellence Awards

202

Prison healthcare payments to Home Office

196

NHS Direct—non contestable core services

139

newGeneral Medical Services (nGMS) Contract fees for Dispensing Doctors

84

Independent sector treatment centres

78

Securing Recombinant Clotting Factors

46

Dangerous People with Severe Personality Disorders

40

SHA Strategic Development Fund (Was Modernisation Agency Corporate Programme)

39

National Cancer Screening Management—Further Funding of £39.971 million in Departmental Central Budget to be transferred to York

32

Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP)

28

Community and Prison Drug Treatment

23

SHA Strategic Development Fund (was Modernisation Agency Corporate Programme)

22

Heart Improvement

18

Personal Medical Services (PMEDs): Personal Admin Costs for Non Dispensing Doctors

17

National Screening Programmes—Pilots and Quality Management. (Was Antenatal and Child Health Pilots Quality Management)

15

Rare conditions—burns

14

SHA Strategic Development Fund (was Modernisation Agency Corporate Programme)

12

Mental health choice and inclusion

11

Choose and book appointments line

11

Budgets less than £10 million

73

Total

1,319


Table 2: Departmental administration
Budget title Budget (£ million)

Direct administration costs (as reported in Figure A5 of Department Report 2008)

219

Administration related expenditure e.g. Capital charges, provisions, Administration cost of collection, Consultancy

28

NHS Purchasing and Supplies Agency

29

Total

276



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Table 3: Other Revenue Budgets
Budget Title Budget (£ million)

Injury benefit review

60

Emergency planning

57

School fruit and vegetable scheme

41

Injury allowances

40

Electronic Staff Records

40

National Cancer Screening

40

NHS Choices

38

Health and Social Care Policy Research

34

Ambulance Radio Contract

34

Service Delivery

33

Tobacco Smoke Free Legislation

31

Smoking

26

Substance Misuse

25

Multi-Professional Education & Training Transfer

24

Pensions Programme

22

Contract management

18

Whole system Demonstrators

18

Elective Care

18

General Scheme of Grants to National Voluntary Organisations (S64)

18

International

17

Sexual Health

17

Children and Young People

17

Health Protection

16

Human Resource Services

16

Education and Learning

16

Secretary of States Health Inequalities Review

16

Monitor

16

Public Health Information & Intelligence and Workforce Capacity'

14

Social Marketing

12

Independent Complaints

11

Life Check

11

Inequalities analytical work: Communities for Health

11

Cancer Registry Modernisation

11

Scientific Development & Bioethics (including genetics and stem cells)

10

GP Patient Survey

10

Toward Cleaner Hospitals/Healthcare Associated Infection & Cleanliness

10

Child Safety

10

Other Budgets less than £10 million including receipts

308

Total

1,167


Departmental Sick Leave

David Simpson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what percentage of staff in his Department have had more than two periods of sickness absence of less than five days in each of the last three years. [218722]

Mr. Bradshaw: The numbers and percentages of staff in the Department who have had more than two periods of sickness of less than five days in each of the last three years are given in the following table.

Number Percentage

2007-08

344

15

2006-07

343

15

2005-06

328

13


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