Mr. Baron:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many clinical negligence cases were closed by the NHS Litigation Authority in the last year for which figures are available; how many of them were funded by (a) legal aid, (b) conditional fee agreements, (c) before the event insurance, (d) private means and (e) other means; and how many cases in each category of funding resulted in an award of damages or a settlement involving an agreement to pay damages. [262747]
Ann Keen:
The information requested was obtained from the NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA) and is provided in the following table. Claimants are not required to provide details of their funding arrangements, but the NHSLA records this where it is known.
Number of clinical negligence claims closed in 2007-08 as at 28 February 2009
Claimant funding
Damages awarded
No damages
Grand total
Before the Event Insurance
287
91
378
Conditional Fee Arrangement
1,132
438
1,570
Legal Services Commission
1,133
803
1,936
Self-funded
425
286
711
Unknown
495
1,089
1,584
Grand total
3,472
2,707
6,179
NHS: Pensions
Steve Webb:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discretion is available to (a) Ministers and (b) pension scheme trustees in respect of the annual indexation for retired members of the (i) NHS Pension Scheme and (ii) New NHS Pension Scheme; and whether pension payments will fall should the retail price index inflation fall in the 12 month period to the end of September 2009. [262005]
Ann Keen:
Current Social Security legislation provides for public service pensions to be adjusted by the same rate as the State Second Pension, and for such adjustments to take place only if there has been an increase in prices over a given period.
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NHS: Public Appointments
Mr. Stephen O'Brien:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of NHS trust chief executive officers appointed within the last three years (a) previously held other positions within the NHS, (b) previously worked elsewhere in the public sector and (c) held a position in the private sector immediately before their appointment. [260296]
Ann Keen:
This information is not collected centrally.
NHS: Redundancy Pay
Sandra Gidley:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what estimate he has made of the likely redundancy costs for each primary care trust (PCT) arising from the latest reorganisation of PCTs; and if he will make a statement. [259949]
Ann Keen:
Unfortunately the information does not exist in the format requested.
The Department collected data on the value of redundancies and early retirements due to primary care trust (PCT) reorganisation in 2006-07, but we cannot separate the redundancy element from these figures. However, the Department did collect these costs separately in 2007-08.
The information that the Department has collected is shown in the following table. Other restructuring costs include early retirement costs as well as other costs arising from the restructuring process.
The PCT reconfiguration programme was undertaken to help to improve relationships between health care and local authorities by bringing their boundaries closer together and to make savings to the local national health service by reducing management costs. These savings will be reinvested in front line services.
£000
Name
2006-07 Redundancies and early retirements due to PCT reorganisation
2007-08 Redundancies due to PCT reorganisation
2007-08 Other restructuring costs due to PCT reorganisation
Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT
0
0
0
Barking and Dagenham PCT
0
184
0
Barnet PCT
0
0
187
Barnsley PCT
0
6
0
Bassetlaw PCT
0
0
0
Bath and North East Somerset PCT
0
0
0
Bedfordshire PCT
701
203
0
Berkshire East PCT
17
500
0
Berkshire West PCT
523
116
1,415
Bexley NHS Care Trust PCT
39
0
0
Birmingham East and North PCT
0
0
0
Blackburn with Darwen PCT
0
0
0
Blackpool PCT
0
0
0
Bolton PCT
0
0
0
Bournemouth and Poole PCT
0
0
0
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Bradford and Airedale PCT
2,142
900
0
Brent Teaching PCT
0
0
0
Brighton and Hove City PCT
0
0
0
Bristol PCT
0
0
0
Bromley PCT
0
0
0
Buckinghamshire PCT
0
100
0
Bury PCT
0
0
0
Calderdale PCT
0
0
0
Cambridgeshire PCT
1,023
0
0
Camden PCT
0
0
0
Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT
0
0
0
Central Lancashire PCT
2,675
0
0
City and Hackney Teaching PCT
0
0
0
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT
0
0
0
County Durham PCT
4,118
1,803
0
Coventry Teaching PCT
0
1,000
0
Croydon PCT
0
0
0
Cumbria PCT
0
0
0
Darlington PCT
0
593
0
Derby City PCT
0
0
0
Derbyshire County PCT
405
0
0
Devon PCT
1,358
1,050
170
Doncaster PCT
0
0
0
Dorset PCT
506
1,356
0
Dudley PCT
110
0
0
Ealing PCT
0
0
0
East and North Hertfordshire PCT
334
0
0
East Lancashire PCT
162
0
0
East Riding of Yorkshire PCT
65
0
0
East Sussex Downs and Weald PCT
3,101
0
0
Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT
998
0
0
Enfield PCT
0
0
0
Gateshead PCT
0
1,621
0
Gloucestershire PCT
908
0
0
Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT
2,527
0
0
Greenwich Teaching PCT
0
0
0
Halton and St. Helens PCT
476
0
0
Hammersmith and Fulham PCT
0
0
0
Hampshire PCT
227
2,493
4,069
Haringey Teaching PCT
0
150
20
Harrow PCT
0
0
0
Hartlepool PCT
0
150
0
Hastings and Rother PCT
2,259
0
0
Havering PCT
0
0
500
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Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT
0
197
0
Herefordshire PCT
0
348
0
Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT
1,933
91
0
Hillingdon PCT
0
0
0
Hounslow PCT
0
0
0
Hull PCT
294
0
60
Isle of Wight NHS PCT
631
0
0
Islington PCT
0
0
0
Kensington and Chelsea PCT
0
20
0
Kingston PCT
0
0
0
Kirklees PCT
121
0
0
Knowsley PCT'
0
0
0
Lambeth PCT
0
0
0
Leeds PCT
1,328
2,561
0
Leicester City PCT
1,272
1,100
0
Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT
2,534
386
0
Lewisham PCT
0
130
0
Lincolnshire PCT
600
0
0
Liverpool PCT
431
0
0
Luton PCT
0
0
0
Manchester PCT
929
0
0
Medway PCT
0
188
0
Mid Essex PCT
3,264
1,077
90
Middlesbrough PCT
0
1,172
495
Milton Keynes PCT
0
0
279
Newcastle PCT
0
2,059
0
Newham PCT
0
0
0
Norfolk PCT
3,549
0
0
North East Essex PCT
935
0
0
North East Lincolnshire PCT
0
106
179
North Lancashire PCT
1,708
1,000
0
North Lincolnshire PCT
0
0
0
North Somerset PCT
0
0
0
North Staffordshire PCT
0
487
0
North Tees PCT
0
688
0
North Tyneside PCT
0
670
50
North Yorkshire and York PCT
2,300
3,916
0
Northamptonshire PCT
1,394
300
150
Northumberland Care PCT
0
2,202
0
Nottingham City PCT
0
0
0
Nottinghamshire County PCT
554
115
826
Oldham PCT
0
0
0
Oxfordshire PCT
494
620
1,519
Peterborough PCT
503
42
0
Plymouth Teaching PCT
0
0
0
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Portsmouth City Teaching PCT
0
0
0
Redbridge PCT
0
0
0
Redcar and Cleveland PCT
766
986
0
Richmond and Twickenham PCT
0
0
0
Rotherham PCT
0
0
0
Salford PCT
0
0
0
Sandwell PCT
685
0
0
Sefton PCT
1,101
0
0
Sheffield PCT
891
2,476
0
Shropshire County PCT
0
0
0
Solihull NHS Care Trust PCT
172
720
0
Somerset PCT
1,085
0
0
South Birmingham PCT
0
0
0
South East Essex PCT
66
0
389
South Gloucestershire PCT
0
0
0
South Staffordshire PCT
61
500
0
South Tyneside PCT
0
2,296
0
South West Essex PCT
1,412
0
0
Southampton City PCT
0
0
0
Southwark PCT
0
0
0
Stockport PCT
0
0
0
Stoke on Trent PCT
222
703
0
Suffolk PCT
2,556
422
0
Sunderland Teaching PCT
0
2,020
0
Surrey PCT
4,592
1,390
0
Sutton And Merton PCT
0
0
0
Swindon PCT
0
0
0
Tameside and Glossop PCT
0
0
749
Telford and Wrekin PCT
0
0
0
Torbay Care PCT
0
0
0
Tower Hamlets PCT
0
155
0
Trafford PCT
0
0
0
Wakefield District PCT
694
238
0
Walsall Teaching PCT
0
0
0
Waltham Forest PCT
0
268
0
Wandsworth PCT
0
0
0
Warrington PCT
0
0
0
Warwickshire PCT
967
204
1,210
West Essex PCT
575
318
0
West Hertfordshire PCT
398
0
0
West Kent PCT
2,304
0
0
West Sussex PCT
4,633
308
0
Western Cheshire PCT
1,241
0
0
Westminster PCT
0
0
0
Wiltshire PCT
0
329
60
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Wirral PCT
455
0
0
Wolverhampton City PCT
0
0
0
Worcestershire PCT
197
360
111
Total
74,521
45,393
12,528
Source:
Primary care trust audited summarisation schedules for 2007-08.
