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Food: Safety

Mr. Pickles: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what (a) inspections and (b) audits the Food Standards Agency undertakes of local authority premises; and what plans there are to incorporate such inspections into comprehensive area assessments. [230914]

Dawn Primarolo: Local authorities are responsible for the inspection of food premises within their area. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is responsible for the audit and monitoring of all local authority food law enforcement activities against a standard which forms part of the framework agreement on local authority food law enforcement. This includes audit of the local authority food law enforcement services and their risk-based food business inspection programmes. Details of the framework agreement, and published local authority monitoring and audit findings, are available from the FSA's website at:

www.food.gov.uk/enforcement/foodlaw/frameagree/

The final consultation on the comprehensive area assessment (CM) has just closed. The final proposals are due to be announced in the new year.

Health

Helen Southworth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people living in (a) Warrington, (b) the North West and (c) England have been diagnosed with (i) coronary heart disease, (ii) diabetes and (iii) food related allergies. [231812]

Ann Keen: The Department does not collect information in the form requested. However, the national Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), which many general practices participate in, records the number of people recorded on certain practice disease registers. Such registers exist for both coronary heart disease (CHD) and diabetes.

The CHD register includes all patients who have had coronary artery revascularisation procedures such as
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coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). However, patients with Cardiac Syndrome X will not generally be included in the CHD register.

The diabetes register includes patients aged 17 years and over with diabetes mellitus. As the care of children with diabetes mellitus is generally under the control of specialists, the diabetes register generally excludes those patients age 16 and under.

The following table below sets out the number of people on CHD registers and diabetes registers for Warrington Primary Care Trust (PCT) and North West Strategic Health Authority.

The Department does not collect any data on food related allergies and does not have figures for the rest of the United Kingdom.

Patient register	Number of patients
Warrington PCT 2007-08
Coronary Heart Disease	7,728
Diabetes	8,347
North West SHA 2007-08
Coronary Heart Disease	308,187
Diabetes	296,826
England 2007-08
Coronary Heart Disease	1,892,432
Diabetes	2,088,335

Health Professions: Manpower

Sir Nicholas Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many individuals of each healthcare profession there have been in the Newly Qualified Healthcare Professionals Pool in each month since its creation; and if he will make a statement. [230906]

Ann Keen: The data requested are shown in the following tables.

Number of professionals probably available each month
	General Adult	Children’s	Mental Health	Learning Disabilities	Midwife	Chiropody/ Podiatry	Dietetics	Occupational Therapy
April 2007	216	40	57	6	20	10	5	51
May 2007	556	91	135	13	60	19	20	81
June 2007	757	116	190	19	77	21	26	115
July 2007	1017	147	271	26	109	32	37	192
August 2007	1136	152	304	31	136	42	50	200
September 2007	1127	154	315	38	143	40	46	209
October 2007	1203	150	339	41	155	49	47	225
November 2007	1142	132	334	44	151	44	38	186
December 2007	1059	118	319	37	135	40	33	167
January 2008	1027	109	320	38	134	39	33	164
February 2008	986	103	322	42	118	35	34	145
March 2008	774	81	281	42	93	23	28	131
April 2008	721	77	272	40	85	23	26	126
May 2008	647	70	251	34	68	16	23	115
June 2008	619	79	236	37	65	15	20	111
July 2008	572	74	236	26	61	20	21	118
August 2008	528	70	220	27	51	23	27	112
September 2008	529	67	229	30	43	26	34	122
October 2008	452	52	222	32	41	24	32	120

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	Orthoptics	Physiotherapy	Radiography Diagnostic	Radiography Therapeutic	Prosthetics and Orthotists	Speech and Language Therapy	Audiology
April 2007	1	55	15	0	0	19	2
May 2007	3	214	38	3	1	37	6
June 2007	4	379	60	6	2	45	10
July 2007	7	666	75	8	2	75	10
August 2007	8	860	75	8	2	90	11
September 2007	8	892	69	6	2	89	13
October 2007	8	952	68	6	2	97	14
November 2007	7	907	61	6	3	94	13
December 2007	5	825	60	7	5	84	10
January 2008	5	803	58	7	5	81	14
February 2008	6	784	56	7	6	78	15
March 2008	5	651	45	7	5	63	13
April 2008	5	598	43	4	5	61	11
May 2008	3	502	34	4	5	45	13
June 2008	4	544	32	6	5	38	15
July 2008	6	737	35	6	5	49	16
August 2008	6	828	35	5	5	55	15
September 2008	4	872	41	5	5	58	13
October 2008	3	793	39	2	5	64	14

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