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The details of the total number of individual payments that have been made by the Macfarlane Trust, Skipton Fund and Eileen Trust are shown as follows:

Macfarlane Trust, Skipton Fund and Eileen Trust: Total number of individuals payments that have been made by each fund( 1)

Number of individuals payments

Macfarlane Trust

(2)14,682

Skipton Fund

4,807

Eileen Trust

(3)-

(1) Information provided by the Administrators of each body.
(2) Individual payments made to infected registrants and non-infected beneficiaries.
(3) This information is not available as requested. In total the trust has made payments to fewer than 100 people. In the year to 31 March 2008 the Eileen Trust provided assistance to 23 beneficiaries. We believe that the trust assisted 22 beneficiaries in the year to 31 March 2009.

Health Services: North Yorkshire

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what revenue allocations were made to each primary care trust in North Yorkshire in each year since 2003-04. [285715]

Ann Keen: The revenue allocations made to each primary care trust in North Yorkshire for the period 2003-04 to 2010-11 are provided in the following tables:


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Table 1: 2003-04 to 2005-06 primary care trust revenue allocations
Allocation (£ 000 ) Three year increase
Primary Care Trust 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 £000 Percentage

Craven, Harrogate and rural district

166,668

181,585

197,111

43,216

28.1

Hambleton and Richmondshire

91,187

99,349

107,843

23,644

28.1

Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale

138,792

152,118

166,123

38,642

30.3

Selby and York

216,207

235,557

255,791

56,154

28.1


Table 2: 2006-07 to 2007-08 primary care trust revenue allocations
Allocation ( £ 000 Two year increase
Primary Care Trust 2006-07 2007-08 £ 000 Percentage

Craven, Harrogate and rural district

235,518

254,740

36,977

17.0

Hambleton and Richmondshire

129,360

139,918

20,310

17.0

Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale

198,010

216,805

35,399

19.5

Selby and York

307,131

335,917

53,344

18.9


Table 3: 2008-09 primary care trust revenue allocations
Cash increase
Primary Care Trust Allocation (£000) £ 000 Percentage

North Yorkshire and York

999,125

51,746

5.5


Table 4: 2009-10 to 2010-11 primary care trust revenue allocations
Allocation (£ 000 ) Two year increase
Primary Care Trust 2009-10 2010-11 £ 000 Percentage

North Yorkshire and York

1,076,587

1,139,019

118,557

11.6

Notes:
1. On 1 October 2006, the number of PCTs reduced from 303 to 152. Craven, Harrogate and Rural District PCT, Hambleton and Richmondshire PCT, Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale PCT and Selby and York PCT merged to become North Yorkshire and York PCT. Allocations were made to North Yorkshire and York PCT from 2008-09.
2. Comparisons between allocations should be made with caution because of changes to PCT baseline funding between rounds.

Health Services: Reciprocal Arrangements

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to page 219 of his Department's Annual Report 2009, what the reasons are for the difference between the level of spending on EEA medical costs in 2007-08 and the estimate of spending on such costs in 2008-09. [283876]

Gillian Merron: The figure for European Economic Area medical costs for 2008-09 in the Department's Annual Report is an estimate made during the 2008-09 year where as the 2007-08 cost is an actual cost. The actual costs for 2008-09 will be known after the National Audit Office have completed the audit of the 2008-09 figures and the Resources Accounts are ready for publication. This is expected to be during 2009.

Hospital Beds: North East

Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his most recent estimate is of the number of intensive care beds provided by NHS trusts in (a) the North East, (b) Tees Valley and (c) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency. [285336]

Mr. Mike O'Brien: The information is not held in the format requested. However, information on the number of intensive care beds in the North East Strategic Health Authority area is shown in the following table.

2007-08
Intensive care :
Name Neonates Paediatric

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

6

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

2

North Tees And Hartlepool NHS Trust

17

South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust

20

4

The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

16

18

North East Strategic Health Authority

61

22

Note:
The KH03 provides a count of available and occupied bed days by broad ward classification. It is an annual return and relates to available and occupied bed days over a 12-month period between 1 April of one year and 31 March of the following year. The average daily number of available beds is then calculated based on the number of reported bed days.
Source:
Department of Health form KH03

Incontinence: Health Services

Bill Wiggin: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if the Government will establish a continence care health improvement national programme. [285585]

Phil Hope: We have no plans to establish a continence care health improvement national programme.

Infectious Diseases

Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of (a) ebola, (b) West Nile fever, (c) yellow fever, (d) sleeping sickness, (e) dengue fever, (f) anthrax poisoning, (g) rabies, (h) guinea worm disease, (i) leprosy and (j) Chagas's disease were recorded in each of the last five years. [285448]


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Gillian Merron: The information available on the number of cases of the specified diseases from 2004 to 2008 is in the table. There were 24 laboratory diagnoses
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of Chagas disease in the United Kingdom from January 2005 to March 2009. An annual breakdown is not available.

Disease 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Ebola

0

0

0

0

0

West Nile fever

0

0

(1)1

(1)1

0

Yellow fever

0

0

0

0

0

Sleeping sickness

0

2

0

1

1

Dengue fever

(2)120

(2)144

(2)166

(3)164

(3,4)167

Anthrax poisoning

0

0

(5)1

0

(5)1

Rabies

0

(6)1

0

0

(7)1

Guinea worm disease

0

0

0

0

0

Leprosy(8)

1

4

7

5

7

(1) Acquired in Canada
(2) These data are confirmed, probable, and suspected cases.
(3) These data are confirmed and probable cases.
(4) Provisional total.
(5) Fatal case of inhalational anthrax.
(6) Dog bite in Goa
(7) Dog bite in South Africa.
(8) Leprosy data are statutory notifications by registered medical practitioners. Data for other diseases in the table are laboratory diagnoses.
Source:
Health Protection Agency

Infectious Diseases: North East

Dr. Kumar: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many reported cases of (a) mumps, (b) measles and (c) rubella there were in (i) the North East, (ii) Tees Valley and (iii) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency in each year since 1997. [285333]

Gillian Merron: The available information is shown in the following table.

The Health Protection Agency does not break down these data beyond the regional level.

Laboratory confirmed cases of Measles, Mumps and Rubella in the North East 1997 to 2008

Measles Mumps Rubella

2008

17

184

0

2007

12

169

0

2006

12

123

0

2005

0

3,766

0

2004

2

579

1

2003

0

541

1

2002

8

101

2

2001

3

3

1

2000

0

17

1

1999

0

36

8

1998

0

0

5

1997

1

5

1


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