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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.


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£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

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

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

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

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.

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