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	2007			2008
	All managers	Senior managers	Managers	All managers	Senior managers	Managers
South East Coast Strategic Health Authority area	944	246	698	1,015	231	784
Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust	66	9	58	79	5	74
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust	139	20	120	152	20	132
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust	53	19	34	64	19	45
East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust	87	15	72	93	16	77
East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust	76	22	54	83	21	61
Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	48	18	29	48	18	30
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust	157	28	129	168	31	137
Medway NHS Trust	55	33	22	56	25	31
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	26	12	14	20	7	13
Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust	65	16	49	63	18	45
Royal West Sussex NHS Trust	45	24	22	44	20	24
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	43	16	27	58	17	41
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust	36	6	30	54	8	46
South Central Strategic Health Authority area	1,436	356	1,080	1,566	439	1,126
Isle of Wight Healthcare Primary Care Trust	67	9	58	65	9	56
Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust	42	7	36	40	10	30
Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Trust	130	40	91	135	54	81
Milton Keynes General Hospital NHS Trust	61	18	43	55	23	32
Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust	191	36	155	227	79	148
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust	218	6	212	245	8	237
Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals NHS Trust	105	39	66	123	41	82
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust	107	19	87	96	15	82
North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust	71	51	20	92	59	33
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust	229	20	209	237	23	214
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust	107	44	63	132	46	87
Note: Full-time equivalent figures are rounded to the nearest whole number. Source: The NHS Information centre for health and social care Non-Medical Workforce Census.

Olympic Games: Canada

Mr. Don Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) Ministers and (b) officials from his Department are planning to attend the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in February 2010; and what estimate he has made of the cost of such attendance. [310855]

Gillian Merron: None.

Social Services

Mr. Harper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which local authorities primarily purchase their social care services through (a) block and (b) spot purchasing; and if he will make a statement. [311576]

Phil Hope: The information requested is not collected centrally. Local authorities are free to determine how best to purchase or arrange social care services to meet local need.

Statins

Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent representations his Department has received on (a) prescription of statins and (b) the side effects of statins. [310637]

Ann Keen: The Department has not received any formal representations about the prescription of statins or the side effects of statins from any organisations or individuals.

Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what guidance his Department has issued on the prescription of statins to (a) women, (b) men aged 55 and over and (c) patients with a 20 per cent. or lower risk of heart disease. [310640]

Ann Keen: The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is the independent organisation responsible for providing national guidance on the use of medicines, medical equipment, diagnostic tests and clinical and surgical procedures within the national health service.

In January 2006, NICE published the guidance, "Statins for the prevention of cardiovascular events" which relates to the initiation of statin therapy in adults with clinical evidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) or in adults considered to be at risk of CVD. In May 2008, NICE published the guideline, "Lipid modification-Cardiovascular risk assessment and the modification of blood lipids for the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease". This guideline covers adults at higher risk of CVD such as smokers and people with high blood pressure.

Annette Brooke: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients have been prescribed statins in each of the last 10 years. [310695]

Mr. Mike O'Brien: Information on the number of patients prescribed a medicine is not collected centrally.

The following table shows the number of prescription items for statins, written in the United Kingdom and dispensed in the community, in England, in each of last available 10 years. Statins are defined as atrovastatin, cerivastatin, fluvastatin, lovastatin, pravastatin, rosuvastatin, simvastatin and ezetmibe.

	Items dispensed (Thousand)
1999	6,989.6
2000	9,423.0
2001	12,600.8
2002	16,663.0
2003	21,635.1
2004	28,110.3
2005	33,771.7
2006	39,800.6
2007	44,576.0
2008	48,717.0
Source: Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) system.

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