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Cebuano

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Ga

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Serbian

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Content and information on NHS Direct Online and Digital TV is provided in the following languages:

Arabic

Albanian

Bengali

Cantonese

Farsi

French

Gujarati

Hindi

Italian

Korean

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Portuguese

Punjabi

Russian

Somali

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Spanish

Turkish

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NHS Direct also offers to provide translated versions of any Online, Digital TV and Health Information content in the languages listed above upon request.

The budgetary allocation for these services for 2008-09 is £255,000.

NHS Direct actively encourages patients and the public to provide feedback regarding the service. Since commencing the current contract with Language Line there have been no formal complaints regarding translation services.

NHS: Buildings

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much capital expenditure there was on buildings in the NHS between (a) 1979 and 1997 and (b) 1997 and 2007 in real terms using 2006-07 prices; and if he will make a statement. [225033]

Mr. Bradshaw: The information in the following table shows total capital expenditure in the NHS over the period specified. The Department does not hold historic records that identify the proportion of this expenditure on buildings.

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NHS capital expenditure, England, 1979-80 to 2007-08
		Capital net NHS expenditure (£ billion)
		Nominal	2006-07 prices
Cash( 1)
1979-80	Outturn	0.452	1.512
1980-81	Outturn	0.611	1.727
1981-82	Outturn	0.738	1.903
1982-83	Outturn	0.771	1.859
1983-84	Outturn	0.793	1.827
1984-85	Outturn	0.874	1.912
1985-86	Outturn	0.927	1.920
1986-87	Outturn	0.940	1.886
1987-88	Outturn	0.926	1.757
1988-89	Outturn	0.928	1.649
1989-90	Outturn	1.222	2.027
1990-91	Outturn	1.426	2.193
1991-92	Outturn	1.524	2.212
1992-93	Outturn	1.752	2.467
1993-94	Outturn	1.594	2.184
1994-95	Outturn	1.865	2.517
1995-96	Outturn	1.736	2.277
1996-97	Outturn	1.341	1.696
1997-98	Outturn	1.089	1.343
1998-99	Outturn	0.808	0.975
1999-2000	Outturn	0.963	1.140
Resource Budgeting Stage 1( 2)
1999-2000	Outturn	0.908	1.075
2000-01	Outturn	1.246	1.455
2001-02	Outturn	1.732	1.979
2002-03	Outturn	2.107	2.333
Resource Budgeting Stage 2( 3)
2003-04	Outturn	2.602	2.800
2004-05	Outturn	2.624	2.750
2005-06	Outturn	2.151	2.209
2006-07	Outturn Estimated	3.069	3.069
2007-08	Outturn	3.591	3.484
(1) Expenditure pre 1999-2000 is on a cash basis. (2) Expenditure figures from 1999-00 to 2002-03 are on a stage 1 resource budgeting basis. (3) Expenditure figures from 2003-04 to 2010-11 are on a stage 2 resource budgeting basis. Notes: 1. Expenditure excludes NHS (AME). 2. GDP deflator 30 September 2008.

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