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Warships
Angus Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what discussions his Department has had with its (a) New Zealand and (b) Australian counterparts on joint co-operation in the procurement of (i) the Future Surface Combatant C1 vessels and (ii) the Future Mine Countermeasures, Hydrographic and Patrol Vessels. [321703]
Mr. Quentin Davies: Ministry of Defence officials have held a number of discussions with their Australian and New Zealand counterparts on a range of maritime issues, including potential ways of working together on areas of common interest in the new generations of Combat warships and Mine Countermeasures, Hydrographic and Patrol vessels. These discussions are at an early stage and it is too soon to say what the outcome will be.
Health
Baby Care Units: Nurses
Miss Widdecombe: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he plans to increase the number of neonatal nurses. [321628]
Ann Keen: It is for primary care trusts in partnership with local authorities, strategic health authorities and other local stakeholders to determine how best to use their funds to meet national and local priorities for improving health, and to commission services accordingly.
Dental Services: Essex
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what proportion of the (a) child and (b) adult population resident in (i) Essex and (ii) Castle Point constituency attended an appointment with an NHS dentist in each of the last five years. [321440]
Ann Keen: Information is not available in the format requested.
The number of adults and children registered with a national health service dentist in England, as at 31 March, 1997 to 2006 is available in Annex A of the "NHS Dental Activity and Workforce Report, England: 31 March 2006". Information is provided by primary care
trust (PCT) and by strategic health authority (SHA). Annex B contains this information expressed as a percentage of the population. Annex C provides the number of adults and children registered with an NHS dentist for the same time periods by parliamentary constituency.
This information is based on the old contractual arrangements which were in place up to and including 31 March 2006. This report, published on 23 August 2006, has already been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at:
Under the new dental contractual arrangements, introduced on 1 April 2006, patients do not have to be registered with an NHS dentist to receive NHS care. The closest equivalent measure to 'registration' is the number of patients receiving NHS dental services ('patients seen') over a 24 month period. However, this is not directly comparable to the registration data for earlier years.
Information on the number of adult and child patients seen in the previous 24 months, in England, is available in Table Dl of Annex 3 of the "NHS Dental Statistics, Quarter 2: 30 September 2009" report. Information is available at quarterly intervals, from 31 March 2006 to 31 December 2009 and is provided by PCT and SHA, but is not available by parliamentary constituency. Table D2 provides this information expressed as a percentage of the population.
This report, published on 23 February 2010, has already been placed in the Library and is also available on the NHS Information Centre website at:
Departmental Location
Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department spent on the relocation of staff from posts in (a) Essex and (b) Castle Point constituency in each of the last five years. [321428]
Phil Hope: This information is not held centrally. The national reconfiguration of primary care trusts (PCTs) in October 2006 saw Castle Point and Rochford PCT merge with Southend PCT to become South East Essex PCT, which involved staff relocation. This was managed by local national health service organisations.
Departmental Marketing
Mr. Syms: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Ruislip- Northwood of 5 January 2010, Official Report, column 103W, on departmental marketing, how much his Department and agencies have spent on advertising, marketing, public relations and publicity in relation to the (a) Real Help Now and (b) Building Britain's Future themed campaign to date. [320456]
Phil Hope: Although the Department has used branding from Building Britain's Future on policy documents it is not aware of any expenditure on advertising, marketing, public relations and publicity directly related to the Real Help Now and Building Britain's Future campaigns.
Departmental Travel
Mr. Philip Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much (a) Ministers and (b) staff of each grade in (i) his Department and (ii) its agencies spent on first class travel in the last 12 months. [320398]
Phil Hope: In the last 12 months from March 2009 to February 2010 the Department and its agencies spent the following amounts on first class travel.
| Total (£) | |
No staffing grade breakdown is available for other users.
Health Services: Rural Areas
Charles Hendry: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what estimate he has made of the proportion of services provided by his Department which are targeted at people living in rural areas; [320570]
(2) what account his Department takes of the needs of disadvantaged people in rural areas in determining the targeting of strategies to deliver its services. [321271]
Mr. Mike O'Brien: Primary care trusts are responsible for assessing the needs of their populations and commissioning services to meet those needs. This includes ensuring that services meet the needs of all groups within their population, such as those living in rural areas.
Health Visitors: South East
Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many health visitors have been employed in each primary care trust in the South East in each year since 1997. [321450]
Ann Keen: The information is shown in the following table.
| National health service hospital and community health services: Qualified health visiting staff in England by South East Coast and South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) areas and by organisation as at 30 September each specified year | |||||||||
| Headcount | |||||||||
| 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 200 8 | ||
| Notes: 1. 2001-08 figures are mapped to their current organisational structure. 2. 2000 and previous data do not provide comparative figures to the current organisational structures, and as such are not included in this table. 3. (1)It appears that data provided in 2004 were incorrectly coded for this organisation and corrected in subsequent years. 4. Brighton and Hove PCT do not have any health visitors coded on their Non-Medical Census returns for the years provided. 5. Data Quality The NHS Information Centre for health and social care seeks to minimise inaccuracies and the effect of missing and invalid data but responsibility for data accuracy lies with the organisations providing the data. Methods are continually being updated to improve data quality where changes impact on figures already published. This is assessed but unless it is significant at national level figures are not changed. Impact at detailed or local level is footnoted in relevant analyses. Source: The Information Centre for health and social care Non-Medical Workforce Census. | |||||||||
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