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Carers
Sir John Stanley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how much funding was allocated to each primary care trust from the £50 million provided for funding breaks for carers in 2009-10; [291048]
(2) how much was allocated to each local authority from the £240 million provided for carer's grant in 2009-10; [291049]
(3) how much funding was allocated to each primary care trust from the £100 million provided for funding breaks for carers in 2010-11. [291050]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The additional £150 million provided for funding breaks for carers was given to primary care trusts (PCTs) as part of their overall baseline allocations. The Department does not break down PCT revenue allocations by policies at either a national or local level and there is no weighted capitation formula specific to carers that would allow needs to be accurately identified at the local level. So it is therefore for PCTs to decide their priorities for investment locally, taking into account their local circumstances and local priorities.
The allocations made to each local authority from the £240 million provided for the carers grant are detailed in the local authority social services letter LASSL(DH)(2007)2 which has already been placed in the Library.
Cervical Cancer: Screening
Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what recent representations he has received on the age at which cervical cancer screening starts; and if he will make a statement; [290993]
(2) if he will place in the Library copies of the evidence his Department used in making its recent decision on the age at which cervical screening should begin. [291040]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: Since the beginning of the 2008-09 parliamentary year, the Department has received 209 items of correspondence, and 43 parliamentary questions on a variety of subjects relating to cervical cancer, including the age at which cervical cancer screening starts.
There was an adjournment debate on 17 December 2008, and two Early Day Motions in December 2008 and April 2009 regarding the age at which cervical screening starts.
There were also two ministerial meetings in March 2009 and one in June 2009.
The evidence presented to the Advisory Committee on Cervical Screening at its review meeting on 19 May 2009 was published by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) on 28 July 2009. The study titled "Effectiveness
of cervical screening with age: population based case-control study of prospectively recorded data" by Sasieni et al, can be viewed at:
A copy of the summary document published in August 2009 has now been placed in the Library.
Clinical Physiologists: Regulation
Anne Milton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when his Department plans to publish a summary of the responses received in the consultation on The Future of the Healthcare Science Workforce: Modernising Scientific Careers: The Next Steps; and if he will make a statement. [290979]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: A summary of the consultation results will be published alongside our policy response in the autumn.
Doctors: Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust
Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust takes to establish the qualifications of doctors contracted to MK Doc. [291076]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: National health service organisations should carry out the necessary checks in accordance with the relevant regulations to ensure doctors are appropriately qualified. Strategic health authorities are responsible for the performance management of primary care trusts (PCT) in their region.
PCT have a legal obligation to provide a high quality, sustainable out-of-hours service for their local population. All out-of-hours services must be delivered to the National Quality Requirements, ensuring patients have access to consistently high quality and responsive care, regardless of where they live. In order to provide primary medical services a doctor, including a locum, must be on a PCT's performers list. To get on a list, doctors must provide information about their medical qualifications and where they were obtained. The PCT must check, as far as reasonably practicable, the information provided.
Doctors: Working Hours
Mr. Lancaster: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many doctors (a) of each nationality and (b) qualified in each country (i) are and (ii) have been contracted by MK Doc out-of-hours service since the service was established. [291077]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The Department does not collect this information centrally.
Health Professions: Working Hours
Mr. Rooney: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hours of (a) general practitioners', (b) nursing, (c) dentists' and (d) surgeons' time was available in the NHS per head of population in (i) Bradford and (ii) England in (A) 1982, (B) 1997 and (C) 2009. [291074]
Ann Keen: This information is not collected centrally.
Information on the total number of staff and full-time equivalent staff within the national health service, dating back to 1995 is available on the Information Centre for health and social care website:
2009 figures will not be available until March 2010.
Hospitals: Parking
Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much revenue was generated by charges on (a) staff, (b) patients and (c) others for the use of car parks at (i) Broomfield and (ii) St John's Hospital in Chelmsford in each of the last five years. [291039]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: The revenue generated by car parking charges for staff, patients and other users at Mid Essex hospitals NHS trust Broomfield and St. John's for the last five years are shown in the following table.
Learning Disability: Housing
Jenny Willott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what proportion of adults with learning disabilities were in settled accommodation (a) in total and (b) in each of the smallest geographical areas for which figures are available in each year since 2000; and if he will make a statement. [291187]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: Recent figures show that around 65 per cent. of adults (18 to 64) with learning disabilities known to services were in settled accommodation at the time of their latest assessment or review in England from April 2008 to March 2009.
The information presented in the following table is provisional data published by the NHS Information Centre and shows both England and council level information relating geographical areas from April 2008 to March 2009. This information was collected for the first time in 2008-09 and is therefore not available for previous years.
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