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Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health on what date his Department agreed to support Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust in its application for foundation trust status; which Minister took this decision; and if he will place in the Library a copy of his Department's analysis used as the basis for making that decision. [269098]
Mr. Mike O'Brien [holding answer 20 April 2009]: The application from Mid Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust secured the then Secretary of State's support on 22 June 2007. The decision was taken on her behalf by the then Minister of State for Delivery and Reform.
We are placing in the Library the following analyses from May/June 2007:
an "application assessment"; this is a completed template summarising relevant information about the applicant;
a note containing unpublished provisional data on Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and C. d ifficile; this is an extract from a longer note containing similar information about other applicants considered at the same time;
a table summarising the trust's position in respect of three questions; the table has been redacted to remove the details of other applicants considered at the same time;
a financial due diligence report prepared by an external accounting firm; the report has been redacted to remove commercially sensitive information; and
a submission from officials to the Minister which includes a recommendation to support the application; the submission has been redacted to remove (i) a "Restricted" marking, (ii) information about applicants other than Mid Staffordshire, and (iii) the names of junior officials.
Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the membership was of his Department's Applications Committee at the time at which the Committee discussed foundation status for the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust. [279209]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The Department's Applications Committee was chaired by Andrew Cash, the then Director General of Provider Development, and would have included officials involved in the NHS Foundation Trust process.
Monitor
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much Monitor has spent on external consultancy services in each of the last five years. [289060]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: We are advised by the chairman of Monitor, (the statutory name of which is the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts), that the amount spent on external consultancy services in each of the last five years is as follows.
| Monitor spend on external consultancy services (£000) | |
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much Monitor has spent on staffing in each of the last five years. [289068]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: We are advised by the chairman of Monitor, (the statutory name of which is the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts), that it has spent the following amounts on staffing in each of the last five years.
| Monitor spend on staff (£000) | |
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) full-time equivalent and (b) part-time staff are employed by Monitor. [289069]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: We are advised by the chairman of Monitor, (the statutory name of which is the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts), that Monitor employed 88 full-time staff and six part-time staff (total number 94) as at 31 March 2009.
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when Ministers in his Department last met staff of Monitor. [289073]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: Ministers often meet with staff from Monitor. The most recent meeting was on 9 July this year, when I met Stephen Thornton, non-executive director of Monitor, and Adrian Masters, its director of strategy.
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the budget of Monitor, the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts, was in each of the last five years. [289074]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: We are advised by the chairman of Monitor, (the statutory name of which is the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts), that Monitor's budget in each of the last five years was as shown in the following table.
| Budget (£000) | |
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost of the office premises for Monitor was in each of the last five years. [289075]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: We are advised by the chairman of Monitor, (the statutory name of which is the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts), that Monitor has spent the following amounts on office premises.
| Monitor | |
| Cost of office premises (£) | |
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the salary of each member of the board of the Monitor was in each of the last five years. [289106]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: We are advised by the chairman of Monitor, (the statutory name of which is the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts), that Monitor's executive chairman is the only full-time salaried member of the Monitor's board of directors. Monitor's four non-executive directors are remunerated for their attendance of board meetings and other work related commitments. Details of the remuneration of all Monitor's board members is published each year in Monitor's Annual Report and Accounts, which is laid before Parliament. An extract from Monitor's Annual Report 2008-09 including salary and remuneration of board members is set out in the following table. Copies of all previous annual reports and accounts are available on Monitor's website.
| £000 | ||
| 2008-09 Salary Band | 2007-08 Salary Band | |
Neurology: Research
Mr. Caton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of his Department's budget was spent on research into (a) Parkinson's Disease and (b) all degenerative neurological conditions in (i) 2006-07 and (ii) 2007-08. [288078]
Mr. Gale: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of the NHS research budget for (a) 2006-07 and (b) 2007-08 was spent on research into (i) Parkinson's Disease and (ii) all degenerative neurological conditions. [288271]
Gillian Merron: National health service support for degenerative neurological disorder research amounted to 4.5 per cent. of the departmental research and development allocations made to NHS organisations in 2006-07 and to 5.1 per cent. of the allocations made in 2007-08.
Details of NHS expenditure on research specifically concerned with Parkinson's Disease is not available.
NHS Blood and Transplant
Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will instruct NHS Blood and Transplant to adopt pathogen inactivation for (a) civilian and (b) military blood supplies; and if he will make a statement. [288749]
Gillian Merron: Pathogen inactivation is one of the options the independent Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs has been considering for further reducing the infection risk from platelets (a blood component). Ministers will wait for a recommendation from the Committee on the issue. There are no pathogen inactivation systems currently available for red cells, the most widely transfused blood component.
NHS Business Services Authority
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when Ministers in his Department last met staff from the NHS Business Services Authority. [289031]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The former Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health, (Ivan Lewis) met with Nick Scholte, chief executive of the NHS Business Services Authority on 18 January 2007.
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the budget of the NHS Business Services Authority was in each of the last five years. [289032]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The information is shown in the following table.
| NHS Business Services Authority-net operating revenue budget (excluding one-off funding, capital charges and capital expenditure) | |
| £000 | |
NHS Business Services Authority was established in 2006 and therefore figures can only be prepared for the last three years.
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost of office premises for the NHS Business Services Authority was in each of the last five years. [289033]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The information is shown in the following table.
| NHS Business Services Authority-cost of premises | |
| £000 | |
| (1) 2006-07 is an estimated cost of premises based on current and previous years percentage of premises and fixed plant. | |
NHS Business Services Authority was established in 2006 and therefore figures can only be prepared for the last three years.
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the salary of each member of the board of the NHS Business Services Authority was in each of the last five years. [289034]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The information is shown in the following table.
| NHS Business Services Authority-board member salaries | |||||
| £ | |||||
| Name | Start date | End date | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
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