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Brain Cancer
John Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what information he has on the trends in numbers of cases of cancer metastases to the brain treated by the NHS over the last 20 years. [253171]
Ann Keen: These data are not collected centrally.
Cannabis: Cumbria
Mr. Jamie Reed: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the cost to Cumbrian health services of addiction to and dependency on cannabis in the last five years. [253791]
Dawn Primarolo: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Chlamydia: Screening
Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of primary care trusts are taking part fully in the national screening programme for chlamydia; and if he will make a statement. [254021]
Dawn Primarolo: All primary care trusts are participating and reporting data to the Health Protection Agency for the national chlamydia screening programme.
Contraception
Dr. Naysmith: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress has been made on meeting the new targets for the provision of information on contraception in the Quality and Outcomes framework. [253457]
Mr. Bradshaw: Three new contraception indicators were agreed as part of the new general practitioners contract arrangements that will operate from 2009-10 negotiations. Practices will begin to work towards achievement of the new contraception indicator in the Quality and Outcomes Framework from 1 April 2009. Achievement data will be published in September 2010 by the NHS Information Centre for health and social care.
Departmental Freedom of Information
Mr. Brady: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many freedom of information officers are employed on (a) a full-time and (b) a part-time basis by his Department, its agencies, health authorities and trusts; and what recent estimate he has made of the overall annual cost of their employment. [253079]
Mr. Bradshaw: The number of staff employed to deal with requests under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act on a full-time and a part-time basis by the Department, its agencies, and the overall estimated annual cost of their employment are set out in the following table.
The estimated overall annual cost of their employment is £360,000, based on the mid-range of salary per member of staff.
In addition, the Department and its agencies call on legal support as required.
Information for health authorities and trusts is not routinely collected. The cost of gathering such information would be disproportionate.
| Staff employed to deal with requests under Freedom of Information Act: Department of Health (including. Connecting for Health), the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency | ||||
| Number of staff | Department of Health (including CfH) | MHRA | NHS PASA | Total WTE |
| Notes: 1. CFH: Connecting for Health 2. Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Agency 3. NHS PASA: NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency 4. WTE: Whole Time Equivalent 5. Estimates from proportions of staff time dedicated to FOI work 6. p/t staff includes one agency staff | ||||
Departmental ICT
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the Answer of 18 December 2008, Official Report, columns 1092-94W, on departmental ICT, what his most recent estimate of the (a) cost and (b) completion date is for each of the projects referred to; and if he will make a statement. [251240]
Mr. Bradshaw: The projects listed under the original parliamentary question were those over £100,000 currently being undertaken by the Department, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA). The current expected completion date and estimated cost details, as at 28 January 2009, are as follows:
The IT projects undertaken by Connecting for Health are listed as follows:
| Name of organisation | Name of project | Current estimated delivery date of project | Total estimated cost of project (£ billion) |
| (1) NPfIT comprises a number of separate systems and services for which, as a whole, there is no single completion date. (2) At 2004-05 prices, including local costs, as reported by the National Audit Office in its May 2008 report on NPfIT. | |||
Departmental Internet
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the answer of 20 November 2008, Official Report, column 687W, on the departmental internet, if he will list the websites operated by his Department in addition to its two main websites. [251480]
Mr. Bradshaw: In addition to its two main websites:
the Department of Health operates 91 websites, as at 26 January 2009. The following table lists these sites.
Under rules set out by the transformational government agenda, these 91 websites will be closed by March 2011, as their content is being migrated to the Department's two main websites, to Directgov
| Annex A: Websites operated by the Department of Health as at January 26 2009 (in addition to www.dh.gov.uk and www.nhs.uk) | |
| Website | URL |
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Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COC) | |
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Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment | |
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Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COM) | |
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Healthcare Commission (Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection) | |
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Information and Communication Technology Research Initiative | |
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Specialist Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance (SACAR) | |
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The National Coordinating Centre for Research Capacity Development | |
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UK Xenotransplantation Interim Regulatory Authority (UKXIRA) | |
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