Work Capability Assessment

Guto Bebb: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps he is taking to ensure that Welsh language correspondence from Jobcentre Plus decision makers to claimants is (a) available and (b) timely. [122644]

Mr Hoban: The Department for Work and Pensions' Welsh Language Scheme was approved by the Welsh Language Board in March 2010 and sets out how we will deal with the public in their preferred language. Processes are in place across the Department to enable customers to deal with DWP in their preferred language.

An indicator on our Labour Market IT System records the customer's preference for dealing with the business in Welsh or English, and whether the preference is for written or verbal communication or both. The majority of letters generated locally are automatically produced in Welsh if the marker is set.

The current benefit computer systems are unable to generate Welsh output automatically. Where customers have requested correspondence in Welsh, a process is in place to translate the letters prior to issuing to the customer. In the majority of cases, translated letters are dispatched within one working day by first-class post. Standard English letters are issued by second-class post.

The Universal credit benefit system has been designed to produce Welsh notifications automatically.

Ad-hoc/bespoke letters produced by Jobcentre Plus advisers, decision makers in Benefit Centres etc. are translated into Welsh on request, within the time scales requested.

Work Programme

Caroline Dinenage: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what steps his Department has taken to ensure that functionally illiterate and innumerate adults are supported within the Work programme. [124600]

Mr Hoban: In bidding for Work programme contracts, bidders had to demonstrate that they had the plans and capacity to tailor support to meet the needs of all participants, and in particular to help them tackle any barriers to employment.

Mr Byrne: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent guidance he has given to Work programme providers on Youth Contract wage incentives; and if he will place a copy of any such guidance in the Library. [125253]

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Mr Hoban: Guidance on the Youth Contract wage incentive scheme is available in chapter 20 of the Work Programme Provider Guidance. A copy of chapter 20 (part of a large document) will be placed in the Library.

Mr Byrne: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what guidance his Department has issued to Work programme providers on the potential effect of the introduction of universal credit on their work. [125256]

Mr Hoban: We are currently holding regular discussions with Work programme providers about the impact of universal credit on the Work programme. It is too early for formal guidance to be issued.

Home Department

BAE Systems

Dr Huppert: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many times (a) Ministers and (b) officials of her Department met representatives from BAE Systems Detica in the latest period for which figures are available. [125078]

James Brokenshire [holding answer 26 October 2012]: Home Office Ministers and officials have meetings with a wide variety of international partners, as well as organisations and individuals in the public and private sectors, as part of the process of policy development and delivery. As was the case with previous Administrations, it is not the Government's practice to provide details of all such meetings.

Dr Huppert: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many staff who work for BAE Systems Detica have been working in her Department in each of the last five years. [125080]

James Brokenshire [holding answer 26 October 2012]:The information is not readily available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

Bail

Philip Davies: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people were granted police bail without a condition to reside at a specific address in the latest year for which figures are available. [125188]

Damian Green: The requested information is not collected centrally.

e-Borders

Alison Seabeck: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much her Department spent on the e-Borders programme in (a) 2010-11 and (b) 2011-12. [121063]

Mr Harper: The UK Border Agency is not currently able to confirm the detailed spend by year but will be able to do this once the binding arbitration following

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the termination of the contract with Raytheon Systems Limited is complete and the Agency is advised that it is legally appropriate.

Mr Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what purposes data collected from the e-Borders programme are currently being used. [123309]

Mr Harper: e-Borders data provides a comprehensive set of information on arriving, transiting or departing passengers and crew, which is matched against watch lists to identify known individuals of interest prior to travel. This has resulted in over 12,800 arrests in the UK since 2005 for crimes such as murder, rape and assault. There have been multiple seizures of large quantities of all classes of drugs, cigarettes and tobacco, as well as seizures of lost, stolen or forged passports; the identification of facilitators and the refusal of entry to the UK of immigration offenders.

In addition, e-Borders provide a repository of information about the travel history of all persons arriving in and departing the UK on international journeys (where those journeys are covered by e-Borders). Travel history data are used to monitor compliance with immigration rules and to support criminal investigations. Data can be searched for particular travel-related behaviours which indicate potential criminal or terrorist behaviour. This assists in identifying individuals of possible interest who may not be known already to the law enforcement agencies as well as identifying networks of terrorists or crime groups.

e-Borders data are also used to close non-asylum migrant cases as part of the Voluntary Departures Programme and to identify voluntary departures of Failed Asylum Seekers (FAS). In addition, we are working with the Office for National Statistics to assess how e-Borders data could support improvements in migration and population statistics.

Mr Frank Field: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the original terms of reference were for the e-Borders programme; and which Minister was responsible for the programme at the time the original terms of reference were published. [124566]

Mr Harper: There is no specific document entitled the “Terms of Reference” for the e-Borders programme, which developed as a result of the Semaphore and IRIS projects. However, an Outline Business Case was produced in May 2005, which sets out the key requirements for an integrated secure border. It states;

In order to develop a comprehensive strategy to deal with the current challenges faced and deliver a modernised intelligence-led border control for the UK, the following key requirements need to be met:

Mechanisms for applying the level of control appropriate to the 51 perceived risk and the entitlements held by those passengers. These range from the ability to deny travel and, at the other end of the spectrum, expediting clearance on arrival;

Mechanisms for assessing, in advance of arrival, the immigration and security risks posed by passengers on scheduled or otherwise authorised services to the UK;

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Maintaining an accurate movement record of passengers travelling to and departing from the UK, in support of further border control functions, including risk analysis and detecting those who have no right to be in the UK and assist in the fight against terrorists and criminals;

Sharing relevant information in an efficient and legal manner between border control, law enforcement, intelligence agencies and other Government Department;

Measuring the effectiveness and efficiency of border control operations, so that operations can be continually assessed and optimised;

Use passenger information and intelligence to inform and strengthen border control, law enforcement and intelligence agencies, making them more effective, efficient and flexible; and

Provide more and better information about passengers to the UK (within legal constraints) that will support the work of border control, law enforcement and intelligence agencies and other Government Departments.

There were two Ministers for Immigration at the time the Outline Business Case was developed, Des Browne (1 April 2004 to 6 May 2005) and Tony McNulty (9 May 2005-23 May 2006).

Criminal Records: Freedom of Information

Mr Raab: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many requests for information from criminal records have been (a) issued by the UK authorities and (b) received by the UK authorities under EU Council Framework Decision 2009/315/JHA since it was implemented on 27 April 2012; and how many requests for information from criminal records for purposes other than criminal proceedings under Article 6(1) of the Framework Decision have been (i) issued by the UK authorities and (ii) received by the UK authorities under the Framework Decision in that period. [124281]

James Brokenshire [holding answer 22 October 2012]:The United Kingdom Central Authority for the Exchange of Criminal Records (UKCA-ECR) has made 8,639 requests to other member states for the previous criminal records of individuals subject to criminal proceedings in the United Kingdom since EU Framework Decision 2009/315/JHA came into effect on 27 April 2012. In the same period it has received 2,127 requests in from other member states about individuals subject to criminal proceedings elsewhere in the EU.

The UKCA-ECR has also made 258 requests under Article 6(1) of the Framework Decision for purposes other than criminal proceedings since 27 April 2012 and has received 671 requests for purposes other than criminal proceedings in the same period.

Cycling: Pedestrian Areas

James Wharton: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will issue guidance to police forces to ensure that action taken against individuals who ride bicycles on pavements is consistent nationally and in line with the law. [124779]

Damian Green: The Home Office does not plan to issue any guidance on the enforcement of the offence of cycling on the pavement. Enforcement of the law is an operational matter for the police.

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Deportation

Charlie Elphicke: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will estimate the number of cases where it has taken two attempts to return a foreign national criminal or failed asylum seeker to their country of origin between January 2011 and January 2012. [124928]

Mr Harper: The data requested are not held in a format compatible with National Statistics protocols or produced as part of the UK Border Agency's standard reports.

However, the UK Border Agency publishes immigration statistics, including removals, annually and quarterly, which are available from the Home Office Research and Statistics website. These can be found in the Library of the House, as well as the following website:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-research-statistics/research-statistics/immigration-asylum-research/immigration-q2-2012/removals-q2-2012

Deportation: Offenders

Priti Patel: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 15 October 2012, Official Report, column 120W, on offenders: foreign nationals, how many foreign national offenders discharged in 2011 with convictions for (a) rape, (b) other sexual offences and (c) violence against the person were (i) deported directly from custody, (ii) deported on release from custody, (iii) deported within one month of being released from custody, (iv) deported between one and two months of leaving custody, (v) deported between two and three months of leaving custody, (vi) deported between three and six months of leaving custody, (vii) deported between six and 12 months of leaving custody, (viii) deported 12 months or more after leaving custody, (ix) awaiting deportation in an immigration removal centre and (x) still resident in the UK. [123845]

Mr Harper [holding answer 19 October 2012]: To obtain figures for foreign national offenders discharged in 2011 according to type of offences and the range of dates requested would involve analysing a large volume of electronic records, which would incur a disproportionate cost. The following tables provide figures related to foreign national offenders deported in 2011 and in detention or still resident in the UK, categorised by the type of offences and range of dates requested.

Removals in 2011
 RapeOther sex offencesViolence against the person

(i) deported directly from custody (within Early Removal Scheme)

60

50

89

(ii) deported on release from custody

3

11

12

(iii) deported within one month of being released from custody

13

37

49

(iv) deported between one and two months of leaving custody

8

20

26

(v) deported between two and three months of leaving custody

5

24

12

(vi) deported between three and six months of leaving custody

7

18

30

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(vii) deported between six and 12 months of leaving custody

9

20

29

(viii) deported 12 months or more after leaving custody

17

35

47

Grand total

122

215

294

Released in 2011: Current detention as at 15 October, 2012
 RapeOther sex offencesViolence against the person

(ix) awaiting deportation in an immigration removal centre

1

3

23

(x) still resident in the UK (non Detained and DO still being pursued)

11

15

79

This is internal management information and is subject to change.

Emergency Calls

Susan Elan Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether operators who respond to 999 emergency calls and 101 non-emergency calls to the police are classified as front-line or back-office. [122556]

Damian Green: Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary's (HMIC's) report ‘Demanding Times' (2011) defines the police front line as comprising

“those who are in everyday contact with the public and who directly intervene to keep people safe and enforce the law”.

As such, some of the activities involved in call handling and control room functions are considered to be ‘front-line’.

Some call handling and control room functions are considered in HMIC's report as public facing ‘middle office' roles. In this report, HMIC sets out a 60:40 split between public facing and other ‘middle office’ functions by way of representing the national picture, but it highlights that this may vary from force to force.

Entry Clearances: Overseas Students

Caroline Lucas: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the answer of 8 July 2010, Official Report, column 387, on entry clearances: overseas students, what recent progress her Department has made on the evaluation of the student system, including English language schools; whether this work includes an assessment of the contribution to the UK economy of English language schools; if she will make it her policy to carry out such an assessment on an annual basis; and if she will make a statement. [124879]

Mr Harper: Following a public consultation from 7 December 2010, the Government introduced wide-ranging reforms to the student migration route. The first change was introduced on April 2011, and the last in July 2012. The economic impact of these reforms on different sectors, including on English language schools, was outlined in the 2011 impact assessment, ‘Reform of the Points Based Student (PBS) Immigration System’, which evaluated the costs and benefits of reform to the student visa system.

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The Government have also introduced the extended student visit visa, increasing the length of time student visitors can study English language without formal sponsorship from six to 11 months. English language schools can also use the Tier 4 visa route where appropriate.

EU Justice and Home Affairs

Rushanara Ali: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimate she has made of the cost to the public purse of opting out of all pre-Lisbon treaty EU police and criminal justice measures. [124839]

James Brokenshire [holding answer 26 October 2012]: On 15 October the Secretary of State for the Home Department, my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May), announced that the Government's current thinking is to opt out of these measures and seek to rejoin individual measures where it is in the national interest to do so. The Council, acting by qualified majority on a proposal from the Commission, may adopt a decision determining that the UK shall bear the direct financial consequences, if any, necessarily and unavoidably incurred as a result of the cessation of its participation in the third pillar acts. Until we hold discussions with the EU institutions and other member states, it is impossible to say with any certainty whether the UK will be held liable for any costs. However, the Government consider this to be a high threshold to meet.

Freedom of Information

Dr Huppert: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 30 July 2012, Official Report, column 1090W, on freedom of information, for what reason the Taser statistics for March 2010 to December 2011 have not been published. [124569]

Damian Green [holding answer 24 October 2012]: Data capture issues have taken slightly longer to resolve. It remains our intention to publish the police use of Taser statistics this autumn.

ICT

Mike Freer: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the name is of each contractor or supplier of (a) mobile telephone and (b) mobile data services to her Department. [124852]

James Brokenshire: The Home Department has a contract with Vodafone for the provision of both mobile telephones and mobile data services.

Immigration: Leicester

Jonathan Ashworth: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people in Leicester given leave to remain in the UK had to wait longer than the 28-day transition period to receive their benefits and other entitlements in each of the last 12 months. [124381]

Mr Hoban: I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions.

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The information requested is not collated centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Members: Correspondence

Sir Gerald Kaufman: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when she plans to answer the letter sent to her by the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton on 10 September 2012 with regard to Mr B Seaby. [124545]

Mr Harper: I wrote to the right hon. Member on 23 October 2012.

Passports: Lost Property

Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many passports the UK Border Agency has lost in each of the last five years for which figures are available; and if she will make a statement. [124602]

Mr Harper: Passport losses are not currently recorded in a single format across the UK Border Agency and it is not possible to identify and cross check all present records to collate figures without incurring disproportionate cost.

Police and Crime Commissioners

Mr Hanson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment she has made of the level of awareness of the Police and Crime Commissioner elections (a) prior to her recent advertising campaign and (b) since her advertising campaign. [124387]

Damian Green: The level of awareness of Police and Crime Commissioner elections is being monitored by the Home Office via independent research, conducted before and after the campaign. As the advertising campaign only ended on 24 October awareness figures are not yet available.

Sadiq Khan: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much is being spent on the production of English-language only ballot papers in Wales for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections. [125166]

Damian Green [holding answer 26 October 2012]:The Home Office has agreed to meet the costs of any reasonable contingency measures that returning officers in Wales take. We expect the printing of additional ballot papers or notices to cost no more than £350,000. As previously stated, we do not expect the election to cost more than £75 million and these additional costs can be met from within this figure.

Police: Emergency Calls

Mr Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many emergency calls to the police were made in England and Wales in 2011; and which call centres took such calls. [125073]

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Damian Green [holding answer 26 October 2012]: The latest available figures show that there were 9,166,679 emergency calls to the police received in 2010-11 and 8,929,533 emergency calls to the police received in 2011-12 within England and Wales. These figures are provisional, as they have not been fully verified by police forces. Information on which call centres took such calls is not collected by the Home Office.

Police: Training

Mr Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department which training establishments are used by English and Welsh constabularies for the initial training of police officers. [124972]

Damian Green [holding answer 26 October 2012]: The initial training is implemented and delivered locally by 43 police forces in England and Wales. The National Policing Improvement Agency is the executive arm of the Association of Chief Police Officers-led central authority, which regulates the initial policing learning programme.

Social Networking: Data Protection

Karen Lumley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps her Department is taking to protect the private online data of users of social networking sites. [123915]

Mrs Grant: I have been asked to reply on behalf of the Ministry of Justice.

The Data Protection Act 1998 regulates the use and disclosure of personal data and is administered and enforced independently of the Government by the Information Commissioner. Where personal data intended to be private are disclosed contrary to the Act's requirements and no relevant exemption applies, the Information Commissioner may take enforcement action against the organisation or individual concerned. The Information Commissioner's Office has a dedicated page on its website:

www.ico.gov.uk/youth

which provides practical advice and everyday scenarios on how young adults can stay safe online.

The Government are also engaged in a joint initiative with the private sector to promote awareness of staying safe online. This campaign is available at:

www.getsafeonline.com

and provides guidance on staying safe when using the internet, including the use of social media.

In addition, the National Fraud Authority provides comprehensive information on its website to promote the available guidance and publications on fraud, especially online fraud, including where perpetrators use social media as a means of committing offences.

Telecommunications Act 1984

Dr Huppert: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many directions under section 94 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 have been given in each of the last five years. [125172]

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James Brokenshire [holding answer 26 October 2012]:Section 94 of the Telecommunications Act 1984 states that the Secretary of State for the Home Department may issue directions in the interests of national security and, as with the practice of previous Governments, we do not comment on security matters.

Culture, Media and Sport

Artworks

Mr Hollobone: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport if she will consider putting on public display in Kettering in 2013 Sir Alfred East's painting “After Turner, Venice, Fog Blowing up from the Adriatic”, which is held in the Government Art Collection. [125284]

Mr Vaizey: The Government Art Collection would be happy to consider lending its watercolour by Alfred East, “After Turner: Venice, Fog Blowing up from the Adriatic” to a public display in Kettering in 2013, and looks forward to receiving a request for the loan providing more details about the proposed exhibition.

Mr Hollobone: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what plans her Department has to mark the centenary in 2013 of the death of the Kettering-born English landscape artist Sir Alfred East. [125285]

Mr Vaizey: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) does not have any plans to mark the centenary of the death of Sir Alfred East in 2013. DCMS has an “arm's length” relationship with its sponsored museums and galleries, therefore any decision they might take to commemorate this centenary would be a matter for the trustees and executive of each body.

All of the oil paintings by Sir Alfred East which are held in public collections in Britain can now be viewed on the Your Paintings website, as the result of a joint initiative between the BBC, the Public Catalogue Foundation, and participating collections and museums from across the UK:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/alfred-east

Mr Hollobone: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport if she will make it a requirement that the Victoria and Albert Museum marks the centenaries of important British artists when considering future grant support for the museum. [125286]

Mr Vaizey: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport operates an “arm's length” relationship with its sponsored bodies such as the Victoria and Albert Museum. It does not, therefore, intervene in curatorial decisions about whether to mark the centenaries of important British artists, which are the responsibility of the Museum's board of trustees and its executive.

Billing

John Woodcock: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what the average time taken by her Department to settle invoices to external suppliers or contractors was in each of the last three financial years. [125311]

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Hugh Robertson: The Department's invoice payment performance over the last three financial years, measured against the normal contractual commitment to pay all valid invoices within 30 days, is set out in the following table:

 Average number of working days from receipt to payment

2011-12

6.73

2010-11

7.64

2009-10

7.62

Broadband

Mr Love: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what recent assessment she has made of the effectiveness of her Department's programme of funding to deliver high-speed broadband and wireless connectivity; and if she will make a statement. [125796]

Mr Vaizey: Monitoring of the effectiveness, benefits and value for money of the Super-Connected Cities programme will begin to be made later in this financial year when the first of the cities start to go to procurement, and begin to spend their allocated funds.

Mr Love: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport whether her Department gives priority to industrial and commercial users in its allocation of funding to deliver high-speed broadband and wireless connectivity; and if she will make a statement. [125800]

Mr Vaizey: The Super-Connected Cities programme is based on the needs of the cities, as set out in their proposals. These proposals were evaluated both on the potential for generating economic growth by enabling businesses to benefit and attract new investment, and on the numbers of consumers who would be able to access the new services.

Broadcasting Reception

Chi Onwurah: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport pursuant to the answer of 15 October 2012, Official Report, column 21W, on broadcasting reception, who owns the UK planning model; and if she will make a statement. [124441]

Mr Vaizey [holding answer 23 October 2012]: This is a matter for Ofcom, the independent broadcasting regulator. Accordingly, my officials spoke to Ofcom, who advised that the UK planning model is defined by the Joint Planning Project (JPP) (chaired by Ofcom) with input from each of the core JPP members (the BBC, Arqiva and Ofcom). The implementation of the model (i.e. how it is used to calculate coverage predictions etc.) is owned by the organisations who developed the software, the BBC and Arqiva, who each have their own version.

Creative Partnerships

Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport how much has been spent on Creative Partnerships in each year since their creation. [123062]

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Mr Vaizey: The Department for Culture, Media and Sport invests money in the arts through Arts Council England. The amount spent by the Arts Council on the Creative Partnerships Programme in each year since its creation, is set out in the following table:

 £000

2001-02

250

2002-03

9,750

2003-04

15,500

2004-05

29,404

2005-06

32,726

2006-07

34,000

2007-08

34,800

2008-09

42,989

2009-10

38,542

2010-11

36,107

2011-12

17,550

HMS Victory

Sir Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what discussions she has had on steps to ensure that the remains of HMS Victory discovered in 2008 are protected under the Annex to the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage 2001; and if she will make a statement. [124953]

Mr Vaizey: The British Government have adopted the Annex of the Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage as best practice for marine archaeology but we do not believe that the case for ratification of the convention by the UK has been made. This position will continue to be kept under review.

Public Libraries

Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what her policy is on whether volunteer-run libraries will be subject to the statutory public library service requirements; and if she will make a statement. [125531]

Mr Vaizey: The Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 sets out the statutory duty for all local authorities to provide a comprehensive and efficient library service, set in the context of local need and available resources. Depending on the individual facts of a case, it is possible for a community-managed or community-supported library to form part of a library authority's statutory provision; or alternatively, for them to sit outside of an authority's statutory provision. Libraries have always been funded and run by local authorities, and it is right, therefore, that local authorities should have the flexibility to consider how to discharge their duties under the 1964 Act.

Local Broadcasting: Television

John Woodcock: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport if she will take steps to ensure the provision of a strong, regionally-based news output in the ITV Granada franchise. [125055]

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Mr Vaizey: High quality news and plurality of coverage throughout the UK is a pillar of Public Service Broadcasting. Channel 3 Public Service Broadcasters are responsible for complying with the terms of their licences, which include a requirement to provide a set quota of news in every region. Ofcom has powers to ensure that provision is sufficient and that licence holders meet requirements set out in the Communications Act 2003.

Equal Civil Marriage

Mr Leigh: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport whether consideration was given to requiring respondents to her Department's equal civil marriage consultation who used its online survey facility to supply their name, address, email address and any other identifying information that might help prevent individuals making fraudulent multiple submissions. [125444]

Mrs Grant: Protections were put in place to ensure that multiple submissions from individual computers were not possible, however we cannot prevent people making multiple submissions from different computers, or via other methods, such as e-mail. The online response facility accompanying the consultation on equal civil marriage did not ask participants to provide information regarding their identity. This is in line with other consultations run by the Home Office.

The Government's response, which will be published by the end of the year, will take all responses submitted to this consultation into account, and will be based on a careful consideration of the points made in consultation responses, not simply weighing the number of responses received.

Mr Leigh: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport whether the signatures, names and addresses of 500,000 supporters of the current law on marriage which were supplied by the Coalition for Marriage in response to her Department's equal civil marriage consultation have been treated as separate responses to the consultation for the purposes of statistical analysis; and on what grounds the decision on whether to so treat them was taken. [125445]

Mrs Grant: We are grateful to everyone who responded to the consultation, including the Coalition for Marriage.

All responses received during the consultation on equal civil marriage are being taken into account, regardless of the format they were received in. This includes all petitions. The analysis of these responses is currently underway and the Government will publish its response by the end of the year.

Mr Leigh: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport how many responses were received to her Department's equal civil marriage consultation; how many of those were submitted (a) by email, (b) by post, (c) through the online survey; in each such category, how many were received from IP, e-mail and other addresses outside the UK; and how many of the responses were anonymous. [125447]

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Mrs Grant: The consultation on equal civil marriage received over 228,000 responses, and a number of large petitions. The analysis of those responses, including detail on how they were received, is still underway. The Government will publish their response by the end of the year which will include details of the responses received.

Public Lending Right

Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport when she expects her Department to announce its decision on the Public Lending Right Office following the consultation on proposals to transfer public lending rights funding and functions. [125530]

Mr Vaizey: The Government's response to the public lending right consultation will be published alongside a final impact assessment in due course. A summary of the consultation responses is available on the Department's website, at the following link:

http://www.culture.gov.uk/consultations/9444.aspx

Sports: Disadvantaged

David Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport if she will provide funding for tickets to professional football and cricket matches for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds; and if she will make a statement. [125106]

Hugh Robertson: The governing bodies of football and cricket already work with local schools, community groups and a number of charities covering a range of disadvantaged groups providing free and concessionary tickets for international, and club matches. The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Minister for Women and Equalities will discuss with the governing bodies of football and cricket, the matter of what more can be done.

Tourism

Dan Jarvis: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport how much the Government spent on (a) marketing Britain overseas and (b) marketing England in the UK in (i) 2010, (ii) 2011 and (iii) 2012; and what the likely level of such spending will be in each of the next four years. [122453]

Hugh Robertson: The British Tourist Authority (BTA), VisitBritain and VisitEngland, discloses expenditure on the promotion of Britain internationally, and England domestically and internationally, within its annual reports. A full breakdown of expenditure for 2010-11 and 2011-12, can be found at note 14, and for 2009-10, at note 13, within the annual reports at this link;

http://www.visitbritain.org/aboutus/corporatepublications/

The following table provides VisitBritain and VisitEngland's total marketing spend, as well as marketing and global network operational costs.

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£000
 Marketing Britain overseasMarketing England domestic

Net spend (actual) 2009-10

26,349

0

Net spend (actual) 2010-11

21,516

5,994

Net spend (actual) 2011-12

28,689

7,550

DCMS grant in aid allocation (budget) 2012-13

31,300

8,224

DCMS GIA allocation (forecast allocation) 2013-14

18,300

7,471

DCMS GIA allocation (forecast Allocation) 2014-15

16,600

4,832

In 2011-12, GIA funding included £11.129 million, and in 2012-13, £15.58 million for supplementary expenditure, such as the GREAT campaign. GREAT funding for 2013-14 has not yet been finalised, and therefore, the total GIA allocation for this year is subject to change.

VisitEngland spend does not include the Regional Growth Fund.

Tourism: Devon

Anne Marie Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport if she will estimate the number of tourists who visited (a) Devon and (b) Newton Abbot constituency in the latest year for which figures are available. [125361]

Hugh Robertson: The Department does not record this information. However, VisitEngland's Great Britain Tourism Survey for 2009-11 reports that Devon attracted an average of 5,166,000 domestic visits annually:

http://www.visitengland.org/insight-statistics/major-tourism-surveys/overnightvisitors/Index/Regional_Results_2011.aspx

Details of visits are not collated at constituency level.

Through the International Passenger Survey, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) records the number of visits to the UK made by overseas residents. In 2011, the ONS recorded that 425,000 visits were made to, and 3,721,000 nights were spent in, Devon by overseas residents. The ONS does not collate this information at constituency level.

UK Sport

Mr Stewart Jackson: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport what discussions she has had on relocating UK Sport's head office outside central London; and if she will make a statement. [125392]

Hugh Robertson: UK Sport and Sport England are considering a variety of options across the country to co-locate together during the course of 2014, when the current leases of both organisations are drawing to a close. Based on a number of factors, including cost, the current shortlist includes options in central London and in the wider London area.

Health

Abortion

Debbie Abrahams: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has (a) commissioned or (b) evaluated any recent research on the gestational time limits for abortion set out in the Abortion Act 1967. [125252]

Anna Soubry: The Department has not commissioned any recent research specifically on the gestational time limits for abortion set out in the Abortion Act 1967. The Department does keep the international evidence under review. Recent data published by the Office for National Statistics on 10 October 2012 “Gestation-Specific infant mortality in England and Wales, 2010”, a copy of which has been placed in the Library, found that 0.1% of live births occurred at less than 24 weeks and the mortality rates for these babies was 877.3 deaths per 1,000 live births, and also that there has been little change in the distribution of mortality rates by gestational age since 2006.

Alcoholic Drinks: Misuse

Richard Harrington: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of alcohol-related hospital admissions. [125261]

Anna Soubry: The Government's Alcohol Strategy, published on 23 March, brings together the Government's approach to reducing the incidence of alcohol-related disease and crime.

The strategy announced that the Government will reduce the availability of cheap alcohol by introducing a minimum unit price. The Government will consult on the level of minimum unit price in the autumn and will also consult on a ban on multi-buy price promotions in shops to stop them encouraging people to buy more than they really want or need.

The strategy includes a strong package of health measures. These build on the introduction of the ring-fenced public health grant to local authorities and the new Health and Wellbeing Boards giving local areas the powers to tackle local problems.

Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer, will oversee a review of the alcohol guidelines to ensure they are based on the best possible evidence.

There will also be an alcohol check within the NHS Health Check for adults from April 2013.

The Department launched a collective Responsibility Deal pledge on 23 March, to take 1 billion units out of the market by 2015 through improving the choice people have of lower strength products.

Blood: Contamination

Dan Rogerson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to improve the support and assistance available to people who received contaminated blood and blood products during treatment by the NHS. [125040]

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Anna Soubry: On 10 January 2011, this Government announced a package of measures to provide additional support for those affected, which includes additional ex-gratia payments for those affected by hepatitis C; index linking the recurrent payments for both hepatitis C and HIV to protect them from inflation; provision for counselling; and provision of annual prescription pre-payment certificates for infected individuals. All these measures have been implemented.

New scientific evidence on the natural history of chronic hepatitis C infection and the consequences of chronic infection will be kept under review by the Department's expert Advisory Group on Hepatitis.

Cancer

Grahame M. Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) for what reason he allocated only part of the Cancer Drug Fund underspend to the Cancer Radiotherapy Innovation Fund; and what plans he has made for the remainder of the underspend; [124712]

(2) what estimate he has made of the likely level of underspend of the Cancer Drug Fund in 2012-13. [124734]

Norman Lamb: Strategic health authorities and the Department are working together to estimate the full year spend for the Cancer Drugs Fund in 2012-13. At this stage we cannot confirm whether there will be an underspend.

We have established a Radiotherapy Innovation Fund of up to £15 million to enable providers to prepare to deliver, from April 2013, certain advanced radiotherapy to all patients who might benefit. The Radiotherapy Innovation Fund will utilise any underspend in the Cancer Drugs Fund in 2012-13. Should an underspend in the Cancer Drugs Fund not materialise in 2012-13, the Radiotherapy Innovation Fund will be funded from other sources.

Cancer: North West

Andrew Gwynne: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent discussions he had had with (a) Tameside and Glossop Primary Care Trust and (b) Stockport Primary Care Trust on improving the proportion of cancer patients who begin treatment within 62 days of urgent referral from their GP. [124702]

Anna Soubry: There have been no such discussions at ministerial level.

It is for the local national health service to oversee and manage the performance of local NHS organisations against operational standards such as those on cancer waiting times.

The most recently available statistics(1) show that for the Tameside and Glossop Primary Care Trust (PCT) area, 88.9% of patients urgently referred for suspected cancer and subsequently diagnosed began first definitive treatment for cancer within two months (62 days). This is above the required operational standard of 85%.

In the same period, 87.1% of patients from the Stockport PCT area who were urgently referred for suspected cancer and subsequently diagnosed began first definitive treatment for cancer within two months (62 days). This is also above the required level.

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(1 )Commissioner-based cancer waiting times for quarter 1 2012-13, published 31 August 2012

www.transparency.dh.gov.uk/2012/08/31/cwt-commissioner-based-q1-2012-13

Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Grahame M. Morris: To ask the Secretary of State for Health with reference to the proton radiotherapy machine to be installed at the Christie Hospital in Manchester, how much money the Government plans to lend the hospital to purchase that equipment; at what interest rate the loan will be made; and over how many years the hospital will repay that loan. [125044]

Anna Soubry: The Government have committed to make up to £125 million in capital available to the Christie NHS Foundation Trust for both the building and equipment needed for a proton beam therapy facility. The arrangements by which this funding will be made available remain under discussion between the Department and the trust and are still to be finalised and signed off by all parties.

Clinical Trials

Andy Burnham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS patients participated in a clinical trial in each of the last five years. [125388]

Dr Poulter: Data are not available on the total number of national health service patients who have participated in a clinical trial. Total recruitment in England to clinical trials (phases I to IV) hosted by the National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network (CRN), and total recruitment in England to all trials and other well-designed studies hosted by the CRN is shown in the following table.

 2007-082008-092009-102010-112011-12

Trials (phases I-IV)

26,611

39,684

49,396

49,139

49,372

All trials and studies

208,200

331,226

454,138

564,698

595,540

Drugs: Labelling

Sir Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will introduce measures to ensure that any medicines available across the counter made in Israel are clearly marked as being a product of that country. [125458]

Norman Lamb: The requirements for medicines labelling are set out in both European and national legislation. There is no requirement for medicines labelling to indicate the country of origin. Labelling is required to indicate the company authorised to place the product on the market in the United Kingdom. There are no plans to amend the legislation to require country of origin details to be included in labelling requirements.

Sir Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy that the NHS will not purchase medicines produced in Israel. [125472]

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Norman Lamb: Clinicians have responsibility for their own prescribing decisions. It would be wrong to deny patients an appropriate medicine solely on grounds of geographical origin.

Friarage Hospital

Tom Blenkinsop: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent discussions he has had with (a) his ministerial colleagues, (b) local authorities, (c) trade unions and (d) other stakeholders about the possibility of referring changes in service provision at the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton, to the Independent Reconfiguration Panel. [125523]

Anna Soubry: There have been no discussions between the Department's Ministers and other ministerial colleagues, local authorities, trade unions or other stakeholders about the possibility of referring changes in service provision at the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton to the Secretary of State for Health, who may then decide to seek initial advice from the Independent Reconfiguration Panel.

Health Services

Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what progress the NHS Commissioning Board is making in establishing strategic clinical networks. [125538]

Anna Soubry: Following publication of the NHS Commissioning Board's proposals for strategic clinical networks in July (“The Way Forward: Strategic clinical networks”, published 26 July 2012), the Board has made good progress in establishing the networks:

four NHS Commissioning Board (NHS CB) Regional Leads have been appointed to lead the implementation phase;

the 12 NHS CB Local Area Teams who will host the network support teams have been confirmed, and their medical directors engaged in the next steps;

the NHS CB has agreed the allocation of running cost funding of £10 million to meet the managerial and administration costs of the 12 network support teams, along with programme funding of £32 million. Programme funding is being allocated on an unweighted population basis;

a Single Operating Framework for strategic clinical networks has been developed to promote consistency of approach, but also flexibility to allow health communities to develop their structures in line with local need and circumstances. The NHS CB intends to publish the framework early in November; and

the structure for the network support teams has been agreed, and job descriptions for individual roles, along with the supporting human resources processes, are being finalised in line with the NHS CB's People Transitions Policy. The intention is to complete all recruitment by the end of December 2012.

In addition, a document describing the role of operational delivery networks, which will focus on co-ordinating patient pathways between national health service providers over a wide area to ensure access to specialist resources such as critical care beds or burn units, will be published by the NHS CB in November.

Health Services: Foreign Nationals

Mr Burley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to prevent non-emergency use of NHS resources by overseas visitors who are not exempt from NHS charges. [124689]

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Anna Soubry: National health service hospital treatment that is clinically assessed as being urgent or immediately necessary will be provided to a chargeable overseas visitor even if the payment has not been received in advance. However, when the treatment needed is clinically considered as non-urgent, NHS hospitals should not provide the treatment until the estimated full cost of that treatment has been received. Non-urgent treatment is routine elective treatment that could wait until the patient can return home.

In circumstances when urgent or immediately necessary treatment has been provided in advance of payment from chargeable overseas visitors, NHS hospitals will then seek to recover the debt from the patient. Following a change to the immigration rules on 31 October 2011, many patients with debts to the NHS can be denied re-entry to the United Kingdom or permission to extend their stay here, assisting NHS hospitals in debt recovery.

In recognition that the current rules are complex, generous and inconsistently applied by frontline staff, the Department has undertaken a thorough review of charging overseas visitors for NHS care. This included how to establish more effective screening processes across the NHS to identify all of those who are not exempt, so that charges are levied appropriately. The initial phase of the review has concluded and its findings are being considered.

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will lay official guidance regarding access to primary health services for overseas visitors before Parliament for approval. [125321]

Anna Soubry: The Department has no plans to produce new guidance on access to national health service primary medical services for overseas visitors. The Department has been undertaking a thorough review of entitlement for overseas visitors to NHS care. The initial phase of the review has concluded and its findings are being considered. If changes were to be made to the current entitlement for overseas visitors to be able to access NHS primary medical services, it would require primary legislation and be subject to parliamentary scrutiny. Should other changes be proposed for overseas visitors receiving primary medical services provided by the NHS, this would form part of a wider public consultation on NHS treatment of overseas patients.

Homelessness

Julie Elliott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to assist homeless people in registering with a GP. [124880]

Dr Poulter: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for South Swindon (Mr Buckland) on 25 October 2012, Official Report, column 1035W.

Julie Elliott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the average age of death of homeless persons. [124881]

Anna Soubry: No assessment of the average age of death of homeless people has been made. We are taking steps to strengthen the collection of robust data and comprehensive research on the health of the homeless

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and other vulnerable groups. We have established a working group of experts under the Inclusion Health programme to advise on data and research needs.

Hospitals: Parking

Mr Redwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what his policy is on the NHS charging patients and visitors for use of NHS car parks; [125143]

(2) what his policy is on the NHS charging NHS staff for use of car parks. [125142]

Dr Poulter: Car parking policies are not set nationally. National health service organisations have the autonomy to make decisions locally on the provision of car parking to patients, visitors and staff.

Patients whose health care needs require frequent or extended access to hospitals have a fundamental right to fair and appropriate car parking concessions and we expect hospital trusts to deliver them.

Medicine: Education

Mrs Moon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many UK educational establishments offered courses in medicine suitable for entry into the NHS in each academic year since 1997-98; and if he will make a statement. [124853]

Dr Poulter: The number of educational establishments offering courses in medicine suitable for entry into the national health service in each academic year since 1997-98 is:

Academic yearNumber of UK educational establishments offering courses in medicine

1998

24

1999

24

2000

24

2001

24

2002

24

2003

28

2004

28

2005

28

2006

30

2007

31

2008

31

2009

32

2010

32

2011

32

Mrs Moon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many students enrolled on medical courses providing an education suitable for employment in the NHS in each academic year since 1997-98; and if he will make a statement. [124878]

Dr Poulter: The number of students enrolling on medical courses providing an education suitable for employment in the national health service in each academic year since 1997-98 in the United Kingdom is:

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Academic yearIntake

1997-98

5,062

1998-99

5,069

1999-2000

5,302

2000-01

5,601

2001-02

6,113

2002-03

6,752

2003-04

7,544

2004-05

7,885

2005-06

7,914

2006-07

7,987

2007-08

7,899

2008-09

8,111

2009-10

8,085

2010-11

8,009

2011-12

8,035

The Department and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) share responsibility for determining the medical and dental school undergraduate intakes in England.

To discharge this responsibility, they periodically, jointly, review the numbers. In 2011, HEFCE and the Department agreed it was an opportune time for a further review of the numbers of medical and dental school places required in the future. The conclusions of this review are expected shortly.

NHS: Correspondence

Sir Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his policy is on primary care trusts seeking written consent from patients before they will deal with communications from their hon. Member whom they have requested to pursue matters on their behalf with the relevant trust. [125459]

Dr Poulter: The Department published guidance in 2003 as part of the NHS Confidentiality Code of Practice. This stated that:

“If an investigation (by an MP) is appropriately authorised, disclosure will meet tests of necessity and appropriateness. The minimum necessary information should be disclosed. There is a balance to be drawn between ensuring that a patient has understood and properly consented to a disclosure of information and needlessly obstructing an investigation. Careful consideration of any written authorisation and prompt action are key, e.g. where an MP states, in writing, that s/he has a patient's consent for disclosure this may be accepted without further resort to the patient.”

NHS: Innovation

Andy Burnham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how much funding he has allocated for NHS Change Day; [125389]

(2) whether any external agencies are involved in the promotion of NHS Change Day. [125541]

Dr Poulter: NHS Change Day is a national health service grassroots initiative devised and driven by new young and emergent clinical and managerial leaders from primary and secondary care across the NHS in England.

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Change Day is an ambitious programme of activities aimed at galvanising and engaging the frontline in the process of improvement through individuals and teams pledging to make a change in their practice that will improve patient experience and/or clinical outcomes by spreading and adopting best practice and championing innovation. NHS Change Day will bring together the individual creativity, energy and innovation of thousands of NHS staff from across clinical and non-clinical areas to improve care for patients, their families and their carers.

The Department has not allocated any resources to NHS Change Day as its origins are from the NHS frontline. However, the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has been approached to support the activities to make NHS Change Day effective, and to this end are seeking a communications partner. A tender exercise is currently being run for a maximum of £30,000.

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NHS: Redundancy

Andy Burnham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the cost to the public purse was of staff redundancies in each primary care trust area in 2011-12. [125387]

Dr Poulter: Information on redundancy payments is not available in the format requested. The following table contains “compulsory redundancies” and “other departures” for primary care trusts (PCTs) during 2011-12.

The data are taken from the audited summarisation schedules of PCTs, from which the NHS (England) Summarised Accounts are prepared. The figures reported in the accounts represent the total resource cost of exit packages for staff leaving their organisation during the year. The expense associated with these departures may have been recognised in part or in full in a previous period.

“Compulsory redundancies” and “other departures” for primary care trusts (PCTs) during 2011-12
£000
 Cost of compulsory redundanciesCost of other departuresTotal cost of exit packages

Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT

884

0

884

Barking and Dagenham PCT

0

0

0

Barnet PCT

484

0

484

Barnsley PCT

0

1,353

1,353

Bassetlaw PCT

0

713

713

Bath and North East Somerset PCT

0

0

0

Bedfordshire PCT

64

0

64

Berkshire East PCT

466

201

667

Berkshire West PCT

14

80

94

Bexley NHS Care Trust PCT

0

0

0

Birmingham East and North PCT

518

257

775

Blackpool PCT

874

0

874

Bolton PCT

324

0

324

Bournemouth and Poole PCT

0

4

4

Bradford and Airedale PCT

530

2,162

2,692

Brent Teaching PCT

173

0

173

Brighton and Hove City PCT

989

0

989

Bristol PCT

440

0

440

Bromley PCT

0

0

0

Buckinghamshire PCT

425

62

487

Bury PCT

0

763

763

Calderdale PCT

0

462

462

Cambridgeshire PCT

0

336

336

Camden PCT

445

139

584

Central and Eastern Cheshire PCT

355

0

355

Central Lancashire PCT

452

179

631

City and Hackney Teaching PCT

207

324

531

Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT

0

0

0

County Durham PCT

0

56

56

Coventry Teaching PCT

0

144

144

Croydon PCT

431

1

432

Cumbria PCT

196

0

196

Darlington PCT

154

517

671

Derby City PCT

0

2,178

2,178

Derbyshire County PCT

0

2,671

2,671

Devon PCT

0

325

325

Doncaster PCT

0

1,380

1,380

Dorset PCT

1,105

0

1,105

Dudley PCT

699

156

855

Ealing PCT

302

0

302

East Lancashire Teaching PCT

645

855

1,500

East Riding of Yorkshire PCT

0

0

0

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East Sussex Downs and Weald PCT

406

65

471

Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT

37

11

48

Enfield PCT

473

126

599

Gateshead PCT

0

0

0

Gloucestershire PCT

455

809

1,264

Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT

148

0

148

Greenwich Teaching PCT

0

0

0

Halton and St Helens PCT

49

1,636

1,685

Hammersmith and Fulham PCT

0

0

0

Hampshire PCT

60

0

60

Haringey Teaching PCT

519

0

519

Harrow PCT

0

0

0

Hartlepool PCT

18

0

18

Hastings and Rother PCT

138

177

315

Havering PCT

1,952

752

2,704

Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT

176

152

328

Herefordshire PCT

74

448

522

Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT

272

0

272

Hillingdon PCT

27

0

27

Hounslow PCT

0

0

0

Hull PCT

0

403

403

Isle of Wight NHS PCT

379

884

1,263

Islington PCT

1,085

0

1,085

Kensington and Chelsea PCT

0

0

0

Kingston PCT

0

0

0

Kirklees PCT

0

391

391

Knowsley PCT

0

1,373

1,373

Lambeth PCT

0

100

100

Leeds PCT

0

499

499

Leicester City PCT

1,269

257

1,526

Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT

2,051

0

2,051

Lewisham PCT

0

0

0

Lincolnshire Teaching PCT

143

13

156

Liverpool PCT

0

3,952

3,952

Luton Teaching PCT

54

0

54

Manchester PCT

116

788

904

Medway PCT

0

0

0

Mid Essex PCT

0

34

34

Middlesbrough PCT

26

0

26

Milton Keynes PCT

1,054

0

1,054

Newcastle PCT

140

389

529

Newham PCT

0

187

187

Norfolk PCT

943

26

969

North East Essex PCT

277

46

323

North East Lincolnshire Care Trust Plus PCT

65

177

242

North Lancashire Teaching PCT

814

593

1,407

North Lincolnshire PCT

0

577

577

North Somerset PCT

349

0

349

North Staffordshire PCT

346

15

361

Stockton-on-Tees Teaching PCT

31

0

31

North Tyneside PCT

0

0

0

North Yorkshire and York PCT

34

84

118

Northamptonshire Teaching PCT

588

0

588

Northumberland Care PCT

0

0

0

Nottingham City PCT

164

76

240

Nottinghamshire County Teaching PCT

175

549

724

Oldham PCT

233

0

233

Oxfordshire PCT

0

821

821

Peterborough PCT

0

378

378

Plymouth Teaching PCT

621

0

621

Portsmouth City Teaching PCT

282

0

282

Redbridge PCT

648

0

648

Redcar and Cleveland PCT

23

0

23

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Richmond and Twickenham PCT

0

0

0

Rotherham PCT

0

1,069

1,069

Salford PCT

559

0

559

Sandwell PCT

226

186

412

Sefton PCT

0

1,082

1,082

Sheffield PCT

0

1,958

1,958

Shropshire County PCT

190

0

190

Somerset PCT

84

66

150

South Birmingham PCT

88

0

88

South East Essex PCT

65

566

631

South Gloucestershire PCT

0

0

0

South Staffordshire PCT

0

85

85

South Tyneside PCT

0

0

0

South West Essex PCT

1,201

922

2,123

Southampton City PCT

572

0

572

Southwark PCT

0

0

0

Stockport PCT

1,624

21

1,645

Stoke on Trent PCT

0

83

83

Suffolk PCT

271

0

271

Sunderland Teaching PCT

0

22

22

Surrey PCT

190

32

222

Sutton and Merton PCT

0

0

0

Swindon PCT

571

663

1,234

Tameside and Glossop PCT

514

0

514

Telford and Wrekin PCT

919

0

919

Torbay Care PCT

145

459

604

Tower Hamlets PCT

365

165

530

Trafford PCT

0

0

0

Wakefield District PCT

311

478

789

Walsall Teaching PCT

246

0

246

Waltham Forest PCT

0

0

0

Wandsworth PCT

0

152

152

Warrington PCT

0

0

0

Warwickshire PCT

257

29

286

West Essex PCT

202

281

483

West Kent PCT

75

0

75

West Sussex PCT

1,529

0

1,529

Western Cheshire PCT

335

0

335

Westminster PCT

193

0

193

Wiltshire PCT

.194

0

194

Wirral PCT

0

804

804

Wolverhampton City PCT

433

134

567

Worcestershire PCT

0

607

607

Hertfordshire PCT

6

0

6

Blackburn with Darwen Teaching Care Trust Plus PCT

416

332

748

Solihull PCT

168

36

204

Notes: 1. "Other departures" include early retirements (except those due to ill health), voluntary redundancies, Mutually Agreed Resignation Scheme, pay in lieu of notice etc. 2. Voluntary redundancies are not separately identifiable from other departures; therefore, an overall figure for redundancies is not available. Source: PCT audited summarisation schedules, 2011-12.