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Diseases

Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases there were of (a) mumps, ( b) whooping cough, (c) typhoid, (d) scarlet fever, (e) cholera, (f) diphtheria, (g) leprosy, (h) botulism, (i) listeria, (j) tuberculosis, (k) polio and (l) typhus in each strategic health authority in each of the last five years. [261488]

Dawn Primarolo: The available information has been placed in the Library.

European Commission

Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what occasions other than meetings of the EU Council of Ministers, Ministers from his Department expect to meet the European Commissioner for Health over the next six months. [262095]

Dawn Primarolo: There are currently no plans to hold a meeting, in the coming six months, between Health Ministers and the European Commissioner for Health, other than at the EU Council of Ministers. Such a meeting can be arranged as the need arises. The United Kingdom will however continue to engage regularly with the Commission and other EU member states at official level in the Health Council Working Group.

Gynaecology

Mr. Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much NHS funding was provided for (a) research into and (b) treatment of premature ovarian failure in (i) Gloucestershire and (ii) England in the latest period for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement. [260994]

Dawn Primarolo: The Department funds national health service research and development through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The Institute’s research programmes support high quality research of relevance and in areas of high priority to patients and the NHS. None of this research is at present concerned specifically with premature ovarian failure.

The Medical Research Council (MRC) is the other main agency through which the Government support medical and clinical research. The MRC is an independent body that receives its grant-in-aid from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.

The MRC is currently funding four research projects of relevance to premature ovarian failure on which £1.1 million was spent in 2007-08. It also supports a large portfolio of reproductive tract research and underpinning reproductive medicine research.

Details of NHS expenditure on the treatment of women with premature ovarian failure are not centrally available.

Health Services: Manpower

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he plans to take to increase the (a) number and (b) skills level of public health workers as proposed in “A High Quality Workforce: NHS Next Stage Review.” [260827]

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Ann Keen: In order to ensure that the actions we are setting in train to deliver the numbers and skills required in the public health workforce are aligned and coherent with our system policies, we have commissioned an internal review. This will examine the effectiveness of existing policies and initiatives in place across the Department and will provide an informed assessment of the capacity requirements and skills gaps of the public health delivery system.

The team supporting this review is now in place and has commenced work, engaging across the Department and with key external stakeholders. The timetable they are working to will result in the publication of findings late in the year, to inform planning cycles for the public health delivery systems.

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Health Services: Training

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the multi-professional education and training budget for each strategic health authority was in each year since 1997. [260846]

Ann Keen: Information on the multi professional education and training budget has been collected only on a comparable basis since 2003-04 financial year. The sums allocated to each strategic health authority (SHA) are shown in the following tables:

Multi professional education and training allocations by SHA
£000
SHA	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08( 1)
Avon Gloucestershire and Wiltshire	113,482	127,133	139,580	156,2692	193,746
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire	57,996	63,336	69,070	73,443	110,577
Birmingham and Black Country	167,514	185,641	198,876	204,396	218,231
Cheshire and Merseyside	150,099	162,744	177,121	180,582	265,261
County Durham and Tees Valley	47,893	50,617	57,511	59,672	85,053
Cumbria and Lancashire	77,749	84,449	92,100	93,466	95,539
Dorset and Somerset	42,669	43,496	46,971	47,563	48,872
Essex	56,531	61,288	66,711	73,457	75,628
Greater Manchester	178,562	194,776	215,247	225,463	243,027
Hampshire and Isle of Wight	99,195	109,131	124,828	132,287	163,312
Kent and Medway	54,109	57,175	66,956	72,193	104,841
Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland	91,782	105,272	114,178	106,057	109,259
Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire	117,875	125,830	134,598	144,190	148,546
North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire	61,938	67,455	73,222	77,873	84,319
North Central London	180,279	195,814	206,788	219,256	310,398
North East London	154,995	166,379	174,578	175,442	188,926
North West London	178,124	185,787	194,520	193,140	198,858
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear	120,135	127,178	139,313	139,854	152,152
Shropshire and Staffordshire	56,070	61,271	66,973	66,452	67,910
South East London	171,660	183,425	192,122	190,038	215,140
South West London	103,603	113,947	121,130	120,426	122,455
South West Peninsula	68,109	76,543	95,418	104,361	109,597
South Yorkshire	158,715	102,238	185,604	(2)227,673	123,571
Surrey and Sussex	99,261	105,173	123,470	129,263	138,954
Thames Valley	105,118	112,869	120,849	124,495	128,469
Trent	129,588	145,290	163,835	170,475	214,173
West Midlands South	56,826	59,497	64,774	80,062	140,076
West Yorkshire	145,675	152,167	171,983	178,503	245,349
Total	3,045,552	3,225,921	3,598,326	3,766,349	4,302,237
(1) The £449 million student bursary budget was only allocated in 2007-08 to the 10 new SHAs rather than the 28 former SHAs following NHS reorganisation. (2) AGW allocation excludes £8,800,000 for Skills for Health budget. (3) S Yorkshire allocation excludes £32,100,000 for Electronic Staff Record project. Note: 1. Allocations are not directly comparable due to the composition of the budget in each year.

Multi professional education and training allocations by SHA, 2008-09
SHA	Allocation (£000)
East Midlands	373,821
East of England	353,430
London	1,064,986
North East	247,104
North West	661,633
South Central	301,342
South East Coast	248,384
South West	370,781
West Midlands	452,192
Yorkshire and the Humber	475,297
Total	4,548,969

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