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Baroness Noakes asked Her Majesty's Government:
- Whether they will name the 31 National Health Service trusts that incurred in-year deficits in excess of 0.5 per cent of turnover as referred to in paragraph 4.15 of the Comptroller and Auditor-General's report on the National Health Service Summarised Accounts 2001–02 (HC 493).[HL2435]
Baroness Andrews: The requested information is as follows: National Health Service trusts reporting retained deficits in excess of 0.5 per cent. of turnover in 2001–02 Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust Avon and Wiltshire MHP NHS Trust Bedford Hospitals NHS Trust Bedfordshire and Luton Community NHS Trust Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust East Berkshire Community Health NHS Trust Hounslow & Spelthorne Community & Mental Health Care NHS Trust Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Mid-Sussex NHS Trust North Essex Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust North Bristol NHS Trust North Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust Portsmouth Healthcare NHS Trust Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Royal Shrewsbury Hospitals NHS Trust Somerset Partnership NHS and Social Care Trust South Warwickshire Combined Care NHS Trust Southampton Community Health Services NHS Trust Surrey Hampshire Borders NHS Trust Sussex Weald & Downs NHS Trust The Princess Royal Hospital NHS Trust The Royal West Sussex NHS Trust United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust Weston Area Health NHS Trust Worthing Priority Care NHS Trust Source: NHS Trust Summarisation Schedules for 2001–02 Rebo
Baroness Noakes asked Her Majesty's Government:
- Whether they will name the 17 National Health Service trusts that failed to absorb a 5.5 per cent cost of capital as referred to in paragraph 4.20 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on the National Health Service Summarised Accounts 2001–02 (HC 493), and indicate which of those trusts failed for technical reasons[HL2437]
Baroness Andrews: The requested information is as follows. National Health Service trusts that failed to absorb a 5.5 per cent cost of capital Airedale NHS Trust Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust 1 Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust Cent Manchester/Manchester Child NHS Trust East Kent Community NHS Trust 1 East London and The City Mental Health NHS Trust Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust New Possibilities NHS Trust Newham Healthcare NHS Trust North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust North Mersey Community NHS Trust Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust South Warwickshire Combined NHS Trust Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust University College London Hospital NHS Trust Wakefield and Pontefract Community Health Trust Source: NHS Trust Summarisation Schedules for 2001–02 1 Assessed as underachieving due to technical accounting reasons. ral
NHS: Agenda for Change and Job Evaluations
Lord Clement-Jones asked Her Majesty's Government:
- What progress is being made with the job evaluation exercise carried out for the purposes of Agenda For Change in respect of the professions allied to medicine. [HL2512]
Baroness Andrews: Job evaluation is being used to compare job demands across a wide range of National Health Service jobs and match common NHS jobs with the pay bands in the proposed new NHS pay structure. We and staff organisations have developed a number of nationally agreed profiles to reduce the need for local NHS organisations to carry out individual job evaluations when the new pay system is introduced (subject to the outcome of staff organisations' consultations).
Eighteen profiles for allied health professional jobs have already been agreed and published. Further profiles are currently being discussed to ensure that a wide range of allied health professional jobs are covered.
Lord Clement-Jones asked Her Majesty's Government:
- To what use the results of the job evaluation exercise being carried out for the purposes of Agenda For Change will be put. [HL2513]
Baroness Andrews: Under the proposed agreement for a new National Health Service pay system, a new NHS job evaluation scheme will be used as the basis for measuring the relative weight of NHS jobs and allocating them to pay bands. The scheme is currently being used to evaluate a number of the most common NHS jobs and help produce national profiles for these jobs. Subject to ratification of the proposed agreement following consultation, these profiles will be used to help match individual posts to the pay bands in the new pay structure. Rebo
Fallen Stock
Lord Jopling asked Her Majesty's Government:
- What has caused the delay in answering the concerns of the National Farmers' Union over plans for the disposal of fallen stock following the ban on burial of carcasses on farms.[HL2353]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Lord Whitty): The Government have been in discussion with the NFU and representatives of the collection and disposal industries since April 2002 with a view to developing a national fallen stock collection service. Failure to make more rapid progress was because no agreement could be reached on how the service should be funded. The farming unions were calling for a scheme that was fully funded by government. This was not possible, both because it would have contravened state aid rules and because it is government's view that industries, including the agricultural industry, should be responsible for disposing of their own waste. Agreement has now been reached with the industry on a shared funding approach which farmers will be invited to join on a voluntary basis.
Lord Marlesford asked Her Majesty's Government:
- What are expected to be the public sector financial and manpower costs of implementing European Union Regulation 2000/0259 on the disposal of fallen stock; and[HL2412]
How they propose to enforce European Union Regulation 2000/0259 on the disposal of fallen stock where it applies to poultry; and[HL2413]
What is the present strength of the State Veterinary Service; and by what it is to be increased to administer European Union Regulation 2000/0259 on the disposal of fallen stock.[HL2414]
Lord Whitty: The EU animal by-products regulation insofar as it relates to disposal of fallen stock including poultry will be enforced by local authorities. It is not possible to estimate the total cost of this enforcement activity which will depend on the level of compliance. The State Veterinary Service has 279 permanent veterinarians and 56 casual veterinarians.
Byways
Baroness Miller of Chilthorne Domer asked Her Majesty's Government:
- What guidance they have issued to local authorities experiencing particular problems with motorised vehicles using unmetalled rights of way since the passage of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000.[HL2490]
Lord Whitty: In 1998 the Government published practical guidance on managing the use of vehicles on rights of way called Making the Best of Byways, and issued it to all local authorities. Within the next 12 months we propose to issue an updated version of this guidance.
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