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Cabinet: Glasgow
Mr. MacNeil: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many (a) special advisers and (b) officials of his Department accompanied him to Glasgow for the Cabinet meeting on 16 April 2009; [273965]
(2) what car journeys he took in attending the Cabinet meeting in Glasgow on 16 April 2009; [273966]
(3) how much expenditure was incurred by his Department in respect of the Cabinet meeting in Glasgow on 16 April 2009; [273967]
(4) what expenditure on (a) travel, (b) accommodation and (c) food (i) he and (ii) officials in his Department incurred in connection with the Cabinet meeting in Glasgow on 16 April 2009; [273968]
(5) when he will answer question (a) 273965, (b) 273966, (c) 273967 and (d) 273968, tabled on 5 May 2009, on the Cabinet meeting in Glasgow. [281289]
Phil Hope: My right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Hull, West and Hessle (Alan Johnson) attended Cabinet on 16 April 2009 as the Secretary of State for Health. He was accompanied by a private secretary. He was not accompanied by any special advisers.
Total expenditure incurred by the Department was £1,064.25 for travel and £241.27 for overnight accommodation and food.
For information relating to the Cabinet and public engagement event held in Glasgow on 16 April I refer the hon. Member to the answer given by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on 3 June 2009, Official Report, column 487W.
Cancer: Health Services
Mr. Baron: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what treatments are licensed by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency for the purposes of treating cancer of each ICD-10 classification. [283282]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: This information cannot be provided without incurring disproportionate cost.
Mark Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what methodology was used to derive the figures contained in the table in Box 8 of his Department's first annual report on the Cancer Reform Strategy, Maintaining Momentum, published on 1 December 2008; and what the equivalent figures are for the latest year for which figures are available. [283771]
Ann Keen: The data shown in the table in Box 8 of the first annual report on the Cancer Reform Strategy were compiled using Hospital Episode Statistics showing the number of finished consultant episodes for cancer-related prostatectomy and cystectomy by trust for 1997-98 and 2006-07.
A table showing the count of finished consultant episodes for cancer-related prostatectomy, cystectomy and cystoprosatectomy by trust in 2007-08, the latest year for which this information is available, has been placed in the Library.
Care Homes
Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent estimate he has made of the average cost to a resident of a single room in (a) a residential older people’s home and (b) a nursing home. [283988]
Phil Hope: The information requested is not collected by the Department.
According to the Laing and Buisson report “Care of Elderly People: UK Market Survey 2008” the average weekly costs for single rooms in private care homes for older people in England in 2008-09, is shown in the following table.
| £ | ||
| Care home with nursing | Care homes | |
People with less than £23,000 in capital can get help with the cost of residential care from their local authority social services department. According to the same report, 61 per cent. of the total cost of residential care is funded by social services, or by the national health service to cover nursing care.
Carers
Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the oral answer from Baroness Thornton of 13 March 2009, Official Report, House of Lords, column 364, on care services: older adults and disabled people, for what reasons publication of the Social Care Green Paper has been delayed; and if he will make a statement. [283523]
Phil Hope: It is widely accepted that the current care and support system will not be able to cope with the growing demands and expectations of those needing care in the future. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us all to help create a care and support system capable of supporting people well into the 21st century so it is important we get this right. The Green Paper will be published shortly.
Dementia: Research
Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of the NHS medical research budget was spent on researching dementia in the latest period for which figures are available. [284439]
Phil Hope: National health service support for degenerative neurological disorder research and National Institute for Health Research investment in dementia research amounted in 2007-08 to £22.2 million. This represents some 3 per cent. of the departmental research and development revenue budget for the year.
Departmental Pay
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 23 June 2009, Official Report, column 852W, on departmental pay, how many staff in his Department received a salary of more than £100,000 in each year since 1997. [282769]
Phil Hope: The following table presents the data, which is derived from departmental reports for the years as requested.
| In post date | Number of staff earning a salary over £100,000 on that date |
These figures include secondees from the Department out to other organisations but not secondees from external organisations into the Department. Salaries included base pay and pay-related allowances but not bonuses. The figure for 1 April 2007 has been corrected from that given in the 2008 departmental report as that figure did not include allowances.
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 23 June 2009, Official Report, column 852W, on departmental pay, what position each of the 71 senior civil servants holds; and what their average salary is. [282770]
Phil Hope: The average (mean) salary of the 71 civil servants mentioned in the answer of 23 June 2009, Official Report, column 852W, about departmental pay was £135,740.
The positions held by those 71 civil servants are listed as follows:
3 Permanent Secretaries
10 Directors General
35 Directors
5 Deputy Directors
18 Doctors employed by the Department on NHS pay terms.
John McDonnell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which (a) sections of his Department and (b) non-departmental public bodies for which he is responsible have requested money saved from efficiency savings to be used for increased pay in their 2009 pay offers to staff. [282893]
Phil Hope: The Department and its two agencies (the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency and the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency) are currently in a three-year pay settlement covered by the Pay Remit process. Discussions took place with trade unions in May 2009 about the possibility of recycling efficiency savings into the pay deal under the terms of the remit guidance but it was clear that the scale of efficiency savings required by the remit would not allow this. Hence, the decision was taken not to request money for 2009.
The Department has 10 executive non-departmental public bodies (ENDPBs). Of the eight ENDPBs covered by the Pay Remit process none has requested money saved from efficiency savings to be used for increased pay in their 2009, pay offers to staff. Two ENDPBs were granted leave by HM Treasury to apply the nationally agreed Agenda for Change three year pay settlement.
Departmental Reviews
Norman Lamb:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what (a) reviews, (b) consultations, (c) taskforces and (d) departmental studies his Department is scheduled to undertake in the next 12 months; when each is to begin; when each is expected to be completed;
what estimate he has made of the cost of each; and when the results of each will be published; [282206]
(2) what (a) reviews, (b) consultations, (c) taskforces and (d) departmental studies his Department is conducting; what the purpose is of each; when each began; when each (i) was scheduled and (ii) is expected to be completed; what the cost of each (A) was originally estimated to be, (B) has been to date and (C) is expected to be on completion; and when the results of each will be published. [282207]
Phil Hope: The information is not available in the format requested and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. However, the following key announcements have been made since 1 April 2009.
The following formal written public consultations are currently “live” on the Department's website:
Drugs: Prisons
Mr. Burrowes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health in how many (a) young offender institutions and (b) prisons the Integrated Drug Treatment System is operational. [282899]
Phil Hope: There have been four waves of Integrated Drug Treatment System (IDTS) funding. The first wave of IDTS funding was announced in June 2006. Of the first to third waves (2006-07 to 2008-09 financial years) 78 of the 91 IDTS prisons have been assessed as having an operational service providing all the key elements of IDTS clinical and psychosocial services.
Of the 91 first to third waves of IDTS there are 19 prisons with a young offenders population. Only one young offenders institute that received IDTS funding in the third wave does not have an operational IDTS.
Health Education: Local Government
Dr. Blackman-Woods: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what role he envisages for local government in the proposed health innovation education clusters. [283208]
Ann Keen: There is no single prescribed model for a health innovation and education cluster (HIEC) and each one will depend on local circumstances, but a local authority could be a formal partner in a HIEC through their responsibility for social care. That could create opportunities for innovation in care pathways, for example for long-term conditions, mental health and children’s services. It could also lead to developments in the joint training of health and social care professionals.
Where a local authority is not a formal partner there will be a link to the HIEC through the local authority’s role as a provider of services.
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