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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
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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]


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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.


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Mid Essex hospital services NHS trust-car parking charges by staff and visitors
£
Broomfield hospital St. John's hospital

Income from staff Income from visitors Income from staff Income from visitors

2003-04

31,851

295,075

13,650

126,461

2004-05

51,366

503,418

12,916

120,645

2005-06

62,383

598,525

12,569

128,913

2006-07

89,000

689,740

2,247

162,214

2007-08

235,443

496,745

4,315

203,449


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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Number and percentage of working age (18-64) learning disabled clients known to Councils with Adult Social Services Responsibilities (CASSRs) who are in settled accommodation at the time of their assessment or latest review, England. Based on data for NI 145 from the National Indicator Set
NIS Indicator NI 145Adults aged 18-64 with learning disabilities in settled accommodation
NI 145NI 145NI 145NI145 (VSC05)
NumeratorCapped numeratorDenominatorIndicator
Number of working age learning disabled clients known to CASSRs who are in settled accommodation at the time of their assessment or latest review. Aged 18-64

Number of working age learning disabled clients known to CASSRs who are in settled accommodation at the time of their assessment or latest review. Aged 18-64The percentage of adults with learning disabilities aged 18-64 known to (CASSRs) in settled accommodation at the time of their assessment or latest review

Cumbria

395

395

1,285

61.1

Northumberland

810

625

1,250

100.0

Gateshead

180

180

480

74.0

Newcastle Upon Tyne

410

410

915

89.3

North Tyneside

170

170

505

68.1

South Tyneside

95

95

425

45.5

Sunderland

365

355

705

100.0

Hartlepool Unitary Authority (UA)

205

170

345

100.0

Middlesbrough UA

230

230

665

69.5

Redcar and Cleveland UA

150

150

440

67.9

Stockton-on-Tees UA

170

170

525

65.4

Durham

560

560

1,430

78.4

Darlington UA

145

130

260

100.0

Barnsley

540

270

540

100.0

Doncaster

230

230

725

62.8

Rotherham

425

340

675

100.0

Sheffield

410

410

1,455

56.6

Bradford

565

565

1,520

74.5

Calderdale

150

150

545

54.4

Kirklees

435

435

1,345

64.8

Leeds

285

285

1,595

35.8

Wakefield

480

480

985

97.2

East Riding of Yorkshire UA

375

375

840

89.2

Kingston Upon Hull UA

150

150

445

68.2

North East Lincolnshire UA

155

155

490

64.2

North Lincolnshire UA

155

155

415

74.7

North Yorkshire

420

420

1,060

79.2

York UA

185

185

485

76.2

Bolton

395

330

655

100.0

Bury

280

215

435

100.0

Manchester

480

480

1,550

61.6

Oldham

135

135

535

50.4

Rochdale

185

185

620

59.7

Salford

300

300

665

89.8

Stockport

200

200

655

61.0

Tameside

320

320

765

84.0

Trafford

365

230

455

100.0

Wigan

225

225

785

56.8

Knowsley

250

250

610

81.9

Liverpool

1,205

685

1,375

100.0

Sefton

275

275

735

75.5

St. Helens

100

100

385

50.8

Wirral

275

275

1,065

51.8

Cheshire

380

380

1,565

48.6

Halton UA

185

185

425

86.7

Warrington UA

185

185

440

84.6

Lancashire

750

750

3,195

47.0

Blackburn with Darwen UA

115

115

350

64.8

Blackpool UA

170

170

410

83.2

Warwickshire

295

295

1,190

49.5

Birmingham

750

750

3,220

46.5

Coventry

255

255

790

64.7

Dudley

555

420

840

100.0

Sandwell

285

285

765

75.0

Solihull

110

110

520

41.8

Walsall

180

180

550

64.7

Wolverhampton

110

110

560

39.9

Staffordshire

495

495

1,760

56.5

Stoke-on-Trent UA

170

170

735

45.7

Herefordshire UA

185

185

550

66.9

Worcestershire

285

285

1,460

39.3

Shropshire

390

390

800

97.3

Telford and the Wrekin UA

155

155

445

68.5

Lincolnshire

690

690

1,655

83.1

Northamptonshire

515

515

1,420

72.8

Derbyshire

565

565

2,120

53.4

Derby UA

150

150

505

60.3

Leicestershire

435

435

1,305

66.4

Leicester UA

335

335

835

79.6

Rutland UA

55

35

70

100.0

Nottinghamshire

900

900

2,165

83.0

Nottingham UA

285

285

660

85.9

Hertfordshire

645

645

3,100

41.5

Norfolk

430

430

2,215

39.0

Oxfordshire

605

605

1,315

92.3

Suffolk

970

810

1,620

100.0

Bedfordshire

630

315

1,075

58.6

Luton UA

180

180

400

89.2

Buckinghamshire

500

500

1,265

78.9

Milton Keynes UA

155

155

475

65.8

Bracknell Forest UA

100

100

270

73.1

West Berkshire UA

115

115

375

61.1

Reading UA

150

150

415

72.2

Slough UA

175

170

340

100.0

Windsor and Maidenhead UA

195

155

310

100.0

Wokingham UA

170

170

415

80.6

Essex

1,060

1,060

3,435

61.7

Southend-on-Sea UA

355

250

495

100.0

Thurrock UA

75

75

200

73.3

Cambridgeshire

495

495

1,365

72.7

Peterborough UA

210

210

600

70.7

Camden

155

155

320

97.5

Greenwich

270

270

655

82.4

Hackney

230

230

655

70.7

Hammersmith and Fulham

120

120

410

59.2

Islington

130

130

450

57.2

Kensington and Chelsea

165

135

270

100.0

Lambeth

115

115

500

46.2

Lewisham

240

240

690

69.6

Southwark

195

195

615

63.9

Tower Hamlets

235

235

600

77.4

Wandsworth

70

70

665

21.7

Westminster

195

195

510

76.6

City of London

10

5

15

100.0

Barking and Dagenham

190

135

270

100.0

Barnet

145

145

735

39.6

Bexley

275

235

475

100.0

Brent

425

420

840

100.0

Bromley

80

80

795

20.6

Croydon

255

255

1,100

46.3

Ealing

255

255

905

56.3

Enfield

300

300

730

82.7

Haringey

245

245

580

84.8

Harrow

165

165

465

70.1

Havering

80

80

470

34.3

Hillingdon

160

160

570

56.5

Hounslow

220

220

545

80.1

Kingston upon Thames

115

115

315

71.5

Merton

125

125

450

54.8

Newham

290

290

710

82.0

Redbridge

495

325

650

100.0

Richmond upon Thames

65

65

365

35.5

Sutton

130

130

520

50.6

Waltham Forest

100

100

370

52.8

Isle of Wight UA

110

110

555

40.1

Surrey

645

645

3,055

42.4

West Sussex

530

530

1,565

67.8

Dorset

290

290

950

61.3

Bournemouth UA

175

175

435

81.0

Poole UA

200

200

400

99.3

Hampshire

905

905

2,975

61.0

Portsmouth UA

45

45

590

14.9

Southampton UA

125

125

350

71.2

East Sussex

390

390

1,345

58.1

Brighton and Hove UA

190

190

710

54.0

Wiltshire

380

380

845

89.9

Swindon UA

90

90

530

33.5

Kent

700

700

3,820

36.8

Medway Towns UA

350

345

690

100.0

Cornwall

600

600

1,825

65.8

Gloucestershire

270

270

1,565

34.4

Somerset

330

330

1,430

45.9

Isles of Scilly

(1)-

(1)-

(1)-

(1)-

Bath and Somerset UA

55

55

375

30.4

Bristol UA

245

245

1,220

39.8

North Somerset UA

100

100

375

52.0

South Gloucestershire UA

230

230

695

65.7

Devon

900

900

2,100

85.9

Plymouth UA

385

385

825

93.7

Torbay UA

140

100

205

100.0

England total: complete data

45,610

43,095

132,285

65.2

(1) Constituent values less than 5 are suppressed, where elements of an indicator are suppressed the indicator itself is also suppressed.
Note:
Values are rounded to the nearest 5.

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