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Pharmacy

David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many doses of medication were (a) received into pharmacies in and (b) prescribed in the adult custodial estate in England and Wales in the most recent year for which figures are available. [324861]

Phil Hope: This information is not collected centrally. The responsibility for commissioning offender health services in publicly run prisons in England has been fully devolved to national health service primary care trusts since 2006 and as such pharmacy services are commissioned locally.

Local clinical audit and governance is in place for offender medication management as in the wider NHS.

Responsibility for the commissioning and provision of health services for offenders in Wales is devolved to the Welsh Assembly Government as it is for the population of Wales.

Prescriptions: Fees and Charges

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his most recent estimate is of the number of people who use a prescription pre-payment certificate. [324897]

Mr. Mike O'Brien: The Department does not hold information on the number of people who hold a prepayment certificate (PPC). Data are only available on the number of PPCs issued.

PPCs active on 24 March 2010 for England are detailed as follows:

Certificate duration	Number of active prepayment certificates (Thousand)
3 months	170.2
12 months	646.9
Total	817.2
Notes: 1. Active means the prepayment certificate expiry date was on or after 24 March 2010. 2. Figures may not add due to rounding. Source: NHS Help with Health Costs (HwHC) PPC database.

Mr. Laurence Robertson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress has been made in implementing the recommendations of the review of prescription charges for people with long-term conditions; what timetable has been set for implementation; and if he will make a statement. [325234]

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Mr. Mike O'Brien: I refer the hon. Member to the written answer I gave the hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Dr. Taylor) on 8 March 2010, Official Report, column 61W.

Smoking

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much his Department had spent on its Quit Smoking application on the latest date for which figures are available. [324895]

Phil Hope: As at 25 March 2010, the Department had spent £6,000 on its Quit Smoking desktop application and £10,000 on its Quit Smoking iPhone application.

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people had downloaded his Department's Quit Smoking application on the latest date for which figures are available. [324896]

Phil Hope: As at 25 March 2010, the Quit Smoking desktop application had been downloaded 1,316 times, and the Quit Smoking iPhone application had been downloaded 5,080 times.

Snow and Ice

Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff of his Department have taken authorised days of absence owing to severe weather in 2010. [324946]

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Phil Hope: The Department does not hold information centrally on absences due to severe weather. Line managers are responsible for agreeing to practical and sensible measures (such as working from home and flexibility in working hours) to manage the effects of severe weather conditions.

Home Department

Alcoholic Drinks: North West

Andrew Stunell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were prosecuted for selling alcohol to under-age people in each police force area in the North West in (a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008 and (d) 2009; and if he will make a statement. [325042]

Mr. Hanson: The number of the defendants found guilty at all courts for sale or allowing the sale of alcohol to a person under 18 all police force areas 2005 to 2008 can be viewed in the following table.

The north west consists of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside which are shown in italics in the table.

A penalty notice for disorder (PND) can also be issued for these offences. For England and Wales 2,058 PNDs were issued in 2005, 3,195 PNDs issued in 2006, 3,583 PNDs issued in 2007, 2,824 PNDs issued in 2008.

Court proceedings data for 2009 are planned to be published in the autumn 2010.

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The number of defendants proceeded against at magistrates courts and found guilty at all courts for selling alcohol to persons aged under 18, in England and Wales from 2003 to 2007, broken down by police force area
	2005		2006		2007		2008
Police force Area	Proceeded against	Found guilty	Proceeded against	Found guilty	Proceeded against	Found guilty	Proceeded against	Found guilty
Avon and Somerset	14	10	5	5	1	1	8	6
Bedfordshire	10	9	24	22	2	1	-	-
Cambridgeshire	9	7	27	21	10	10	8	8
Cheshire	8	5	6	6	6	5	9	7
Cleveland	14	12	11	7	13	13	10	8
Cumbria	8	6	1	1	1	1	4	3
Derbyshire	13	6	8	7	7	7	17	16
Devon and Cornwall	8	3	6	4	5	-	1	1
Dorset	35	7	7	-	2	-	3	3
Durham	2	-	-	-	3	-	7	6
Essex	8	8	16	10	14	13	4	2
Gloucestershire	5	5	10	10	3	3	10	7
Greater Manchester	117	92	160	112	35	30	39	29
Hampshire	11	8	2	-	4	4	9	6
Hertfordshire	3	1	40	35	24	21	2	2
Humberside	2	1	6	3	5	3	1	-
Kent	14	10	2	2	2	1	6	6
Lancashire	89	65	32	22	27	21	33	27
Leicestershire	27	15	45	31	55	49	9	9
Lincolnshire	11	1	10	1	3	3	6	6
Merseyside	16	11	34	16	28	20	24	17
Metropolitan Police	253	206	236	199	176	137	76	65
Norfolk	3	1	-	-	2	2	1	1
Northamptonshire	11	6	13	10	7	7	5	5
Northumbria	79	55	41	23	12	4	13	10
North Yorkshire	3	1	68	19	29	11	1	1
Nottinghamshire	11	9	37	29	5	3	7	4
South Yorkshire	18	8	10	9	9	2	4	4
Staffordshire	20	12	23	21	26	18	19	16
Suffolk	3	3	4	2	-	-	1	1
Surrey	13	11	18	17	5	3	8	6
Sussex	4	1	33	20	11	11	7	5
Thames Valley	15	5	36	14	20	14	2	1
Warwickshire	7	7	2	2	1	1	1	-
West Mercia	19	15	10	7	5	4	3	3
West Midlands	76	63	74	60	57	49	44	32
West Yorkshire	15	11	17	10	9	7	9	7
Wiltshire	23	9	10	6	6	5	1	1
Dyfed Powys	6	4	18	15	13	3	4	3
Gwent	16	12	21	14	13	8	9	7
North Wales	10	10	4	4	8	7	11	8
South Wales	55	41	72	58	29	23	23	17
North West total	238	179	233	157	97	77	109	83
England and Wales	1,084	772	1,199	854	693	525	459	366
Notes: 1. Data includes the following offence descriptions and corresponding statutes: Selling etc. intoxicating liquor to person under 18 for consumption on the premises-Licensing Act 1964 S. 169 A & B as added by Licensing (Young Persons) Act 2000 S. 1, Licensing (Occasional Permissions) Act 1983 S.3 [Sen. Para. 4(1)). Sale of alcohol to person under 18-Licensing Act 2003 S. 146 Allowing sale of alcohol to person under 18-Licensing Act 2003 S. 147 Wholesaler selling intoxicating liquor to a person under 18-Licensing Act 1964 S. 181A(1) as added by Licensing Act 1988 S. 17. Persistently selling alcohol to children-Licensing Act 2003 S. 147A as added by Violent Crime reduction Act 2006. 2. Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used. 3. The "Total proceeded against" statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe. Source: Justice Statistics Analytical Services-Ministry of Justice.

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