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22 Jun 2009 : Column 719W—continued
British Medical Journal
Economist
Health Service Journal
Lancet
Public Finance
Spectator
Total cost: £139.95
Ben Bradshaw: Minister of State
Economist
General Practitioner
Health Service Journal
New Statesman
Private Eye
Pulse
Spectator
Total: £81.17
R t . H on. Dawn Primarolo: Minister of State
Economist
Total cost: £20.00
Community Care
Health Service Journal
Private Eye
Total cost: £23.95
Ann Keen: Parliamentary Under-Secretary
Economist
Health Service Journal
New Statesman
Nursing Times
Private Eye
Spectator
Total cost: £62.10
Professor The Lord Darzi, KBE: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Health Service Journal
Private Eye
Total cost: £16.60
The total cost for newspapers and periodicals for May 2009 is £1,018.57.
Departmental Public Consultation
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what public consultations have been carried out by his Department since July 2007. [279412]
Phil Hope: A list of the formal written public consultations launched by the Department between 1 July 2007 and 31 May 2009 has been placed in the Library.
Departmental Travel
Grant Shapps: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department spent on tickets for (a) air and (b) rail travel for (i) Ministers, (ii) special advisers and (iii) civil servants in his Department which were not used in each of the last three years. [280012]
Phil Hope: All expenditure on air and rail travel has to be incurred in accordance with the principles of Managing Public Money and the Treasury handbook on Regularity and Propriety.
The Department has spent the following on tickets booked through our travel-booking contractor which have not been used and have been returned.
| £ | ||
| Air travel | Rail travel | |
Returned tickets are refunded to the Department subject to an administration fee.
The amount refunded to the Department was:
| £ | ||
| Air travel | Rail travel | |
It is not possible to break these figures down between Ministers, special advisers and civil servants as it would mean going through individual records and to do so would incur disproportionate cost.
Drugs: Prisons
Mr. Burrowes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many prisoners have been (a) detoxed for up to 14 days with the prescription of methadone, (b) maintained on methadone beyond a 14-day detoxification and (c) placed on abstinence-based addiction programmes in each prison and young offender institution in each of the last five years. [280349]
Phil Hope: The Department has not centrally collected the information requested for each of the last five years.
However, mechanisms have been put in place as of 1 April 2009 and prisons are now collecting baseline data on the number of drug users in effective treatment. This will enable the Department to collect comparable data from April 2010.
Fluoride: Drinking Water
Dr. Julian Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what guidance he issues to strategic health authorities on the proportion of representations required in opposition to fluoridation of tap water in a particular community in order for the authority to withdraw its proposals for fluoridation of the water supply to that community; [281140]
(2) for what reasons strategic health authorities consult local communities on whether their tap water should be fluoridated. [281141]
Ann Keen:
Under regulation 5 of the Water Fluoridation (Consultation) (England) Regulations 2005, a strategic health authority (SHA) considering the outcome of a consultation on water fluoridation is required to take into account both the extent of support for the proposal and the cogency of the arguments advanced. In so doing, the authority has to be satisfied that the health arguments in favour of proceeding with the proposal outweigh all arguments against proceeding with it before it takes any steps regarding fluoridation arrangements.
Accordingly, guidance on the application of the regulations, issued by the chief dental officer in February 2008, advised that:
“a SHA cannot base its decision solely on a simple count of the representations for or against the proposal”.
Dr. Julian Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussion he has had with the Prime Minister on his recent statement in Southampton that the people should decide whether the city's water should be fluoridated. [281142]
Ann Keen: The Prime Minister's statement serves to highlight the legislative requirements contained in section 89 of the Water Industry Act 1991 whereby a strategic health authority must “consult and ascertain opinion” before requesting a water undertaker to increase the fluoride content of a water supply.
Dr. Julian Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his policy is on ministerial statements for or against fluoridation during a period of public consultation on whether or not to fluoridate a water supply. [281143]
Ann Keen: The Government support the fluoridation of water because of the potential it offers for reducing inequalities in oral health. To help inform public consultations, Ministers will, if asked, explain the reasons for their support.
Dr. Julian Lewis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will call in for examination the decision of South Central Strategic Health Authority to introduce fluoridation in Southampton and Totton. [281146]
Ann Keen: This would not be appropriate as an application has been made for a judicial review of the decision of the South Central strategic health authority to fluoridate Southampton and parts of south west Hampshire.
Health Services: Overseas Visitors
Mr. Greg Knight: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much income the Scarborough and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust received from payments from foreign visitors not entitled to free NHS treatment in the last 12 months. [281399]
Gillian Merron: The Scarborough and North East Yorkshire NHS trust reported income from overseas patients under non-reciprocal agreements of £19,000. The figure provided is for 2007-08 which is the latest period for which audited figures are available.
The figure is taken from the NHS trust's audited summarisation schedules.
The Department is currently in the process of collecting 2008-09 accounts but this information will not be available until the autumn.
Health: Research
Jo Swinson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department has (a) allocated to and (b) spent on translational medical and health research in each of the last 10 years. [281645]
Gillian Merron: The information requested is not available.
Sir David Cooksey’s report “A review of UK health research funding” published in December 2006 concluded that more should be done to ensure that publicly funded health research was carried out in the most effective and efficient way and to facilitate the rapid translation of research findings into health and economic benefits.
Under the oversight of the Office for Strategic Co-ordination of Health Research (OSCHR), the Medical Research Council and National Institute for Health Research have significantly increased their commitment to fund clinical and translational research. Details of the progress made are contained in the OSCHR chairman’s first progress report available at:
Hospitals: Admissions
Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many hospital admissions there have been for diagnosis codes (a) F19.0, (b) F19.1, (c) F19.2, (d) F19.3, (e) F19.4, (f) F19.5, (g) F19.6, (h) F19.7, (i) F19.8 and (j) F19.9 for (i) males and (ii) females aged (A) under 14, (B) 14 to 17 and (C) 18 years and over in (1) each region and (2) each primary care trust in each of the last five years; [279723]
(2) how many hospital admissions there have been for diagnosis codes (a) F16.0, (b) F16.1, (c) F16.2, (d) F16.3, (e) F16.4, (f) F16.5, (g) F16.6, (h) F16.7, (i) F16.8 and (j) F16.9 for (i) males and (ii) females aged (A) under 14, (B) 14 to 17 and (C) 18 years and over in (1) each region and (2) each primary care trust in each of the last five years; [279724]
(3) how many hospital admissions there have been for diagnosis codes (a) F14.0, (b) F14.1, (c) F14.2 , (d) F14.3, (e) F14.4, (f) F14.5, (g) F14.6, (h) F14.7, (i) F14.8 and (j) F14.9 for (i) males and (ii) females aged (A) under 14, (B) 14 to 17 and (C) 18 years and over in (1) each region and (2) each primary care trust in each of the last five years; [279725]
(4) how many hospital admissions there have been for diagnosis codes (a) F13.0, (b) F13.1, (c) F13.2, (d) F13.3, (e) F13.4, (f) F13.5, (g) F13.6, (h) F13.7, (i) F13.8 and (j) F13.9 for (i) males and (ii) females aged (A) under 14, (B) 14 to 17 and (C) 18 years and over in (1) each region and (2) each primary care trust in each of the last five years; [279726]
(5) how many hospital admissions there have been for diagnosis codes (a) F12.0, (b) F12.1, (c) F12.2, (d) F12.3, (e) F12.4, (f) F12.5, (g) F12.6, (h) F12.7, (i) F12.8 and (j) F12.9 for (i) males and (ii) females aged (A) under 14, (B) 14 to 17 and (C) 18 years and over in (1) each region and (2) each primary care trust in each of the last five years. [279727]
Phil Hope: The information has been placed in the Library. The information requested is shown in the tables by strategic health authority (SHA). To present the data by primary care trust we would need to suppress the majority of the data due to small numbers.
Norman Lamb:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many hospital admissions there have been for diagnosis code (a) Y65.0, (b) Y65.1, (c)
Y65.2, (d) Y65.3, (e) Y65.4, (f) Y65.5 and (g) Y62.8 for (i) males and (ii) females aged (A) under 14, (B) 14 to 17 and (C) 18 years and over in (1) each region and (2) each primary care trust in each of the last five years; [280472]
(2) how many hospital admissions there have been for diagnosis code (a) Y64, (b) Y66 and (c) Y69 for (i) males and (ii) females aged (A) under 14, (B) 14 to 17 and (C) 18 years and over in (1) each region and (2) each primary care trust in each of the last five years; [280473]
(3) how many hospital admissions there have been for diagnosis code (a) Y63.0, (b) Y63.1, (c) Y63.2, (d) Y63.3, (e) Y63.4, (f) Y63.5, (g) Y63.6, (h) Y63.8 and (i) Y63.9 for (i) males and (ii) females aged (A) under 14, (B) 14 to 17 and (C) 18 years and over in (1) each region and (2) each primary care trust in each of the last five years; [280474]
(4) how many hospital admissions there have been for diagnosis code (a) Y62.0, (b) Y62.1, (c) Y62.2, (d) Y62.3, (e) Y62.4, (f) Y62.5, (g) Y62.6, (h) Y62.8 and (i) Y62.9 for (i) males and (ii) females aged (A) under 14, (B) 14 to 17 and (C) 18 years and over in (1) each region and (2) each primary care trust in each of the last five years; [280475]
(5) how many hospital admissions there have been for diagnosis code (a) Y61.0, (b) Y61.1, (c) Y61.2, (d) Y61.3, (e) Y61.4, (f) Y61.5, (g) Y61.6, (h) Y61.7, (i) Y61.8 and (j) Y61.9 for (i) males and (ii) females aged (A) under 14, (B) 14 to 17 and (C) 18 years and over in (1) each region and (2) each primary care trust in each of the last five years; [280476]
(6) how many hospital admissions there have been for diagnosis code (a) Y60.0, (b) Y60.1, (c) Y60.2, (d) Y60.3, (e) Y60.4, (f) Y60.5, (g) Y60.6, (h) Y60.7, (i) Y60.8 and (j) Y60.9 for (i) males and (ii) females aged (A) under 14, (B) 14 to 17 and (C) 18 years and over in (1) each region and (2) each primary care trust in each of the last five years. [280477]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The NHS Information Centre for health and social care has provided a count of admissions broken down by strategic health authority of residence. The data cover diagnosis codes Y60.0 to Y69 and a copy has been placed in the Library.
A count of admissions by primary care trust has not been included as the numbers are small and it may be possible to identify individual patients.
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