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Smoking and Women
Lord Acton asked Her Majesty's Government:
- Further to the answer by the Lord Warner on 10 March (HL Deb, col. 1233) on the National Health Service smoking cessation services, how many women who used the services in 2002–03 failed to give up smoking. [HL1930]
Lord Warner: Around 33,600 (25 per cent) of the 135,000 women who set a quit date with the National Health Service Stop Smoking Services between April 2002 to March 2003 did not successfully quit smoking at four-week follow-up (based on self-report). Around 70,200 (52 per cent) had successfully quit smoking at the four-week follow-up (based on self-report), and around 31,200 (23 per cent) were lost to follow-up or the outcome was not known.
MMR Vaccine
The Countess of Mar asked Her Majesty's Government:
- Whether any component of the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine has ever been genetically modified. [HL1972]
Lord Warner: No component of the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine has been genetically modified.
Fatigue and Neurological Disorders
The Countess of Mar asked Her Majesty's Government:
- Whether the Oxford criteria for determining fatigue states include patients with neurological disorders; and [HL1975]
What neurological diseases, apart from myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome, classified by the international statistical classification of diseases and related health problems are included in the recently published World Health Organisation guide to mental and neurological health in primary care. [HL1976]
Lord Warner: The Department of Health was not involved in the publication of the Oxford criteria or of the World Health Organisation guide to mental and neurological health in primary care. Questions on the content of these publications should be taken up with the authors.
Disabled People: Local Authority Services
Lord Tebbit asked Her Majesty's Government:
- What services and assistance designed to assist disabled people local authorities are required by statute to give.[HL1998]
Lord Warner: The NHS and Community Care Act 1990 provides the legislative base for the provision of community care services, and in particular Section 47 places a duty on authorities to assess the needs of anyone who seems to them to be in need of community care arranged by the authority.
Section 2(1) of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Person Act 1970 requires local authorities to arrange the provision of a range of services for those disabled people they consider to need them. The services which are to be provided as needed are:
- (a) practical assistance in the home;
- (b) provision, or assistance in obtaining, radio, television, library or similar recreational facilities;
- (c) lectures, games, outings or other recreational facilities outside the home, or assistance in taking advantage of educational facilities available;
- (d) facilities for, or assistance in, travelling to and from home for various purposes;
- (e) assistance in arranging adaptations to the home, or the provision of additional facilities designed to secure greater safety, comfort or convenience;
- (f) facilitating the taking of holidays;
- (g) meals, whether at home or elsewhere;
- (h) provision, or assistance in obtaining, a telephone and any special equipment needed to enable the disabled person to use it.
School Sport
Lord Moynihan asked Her Majesty's Government:
- How many school sport co-ordinators and partnership development managers were employed
- in England for each year since 1999–2000; and how the figures break down on a regional basis.[HL1719]
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Lord McIntosh of Haringey): The number of school sport co-ordinators employed in England for each academic year since 1999–2000 is as follows:
| 1999–2000 | 2000–01 | 2001–02 | 2002–03 | 2003–04 | |
| East | 0 | 0 | 13 | 42 | 93 |
| East Midlands | 0 | 8 | 30 | 65 | 97 |
| London | 0 | 10 | 26 | 146 | 196 |
| North East | 0 | 21 | 55 | 70 | 110 |
| North West | 0 | 47 | 83 | 123 | 183 |
| South East | 0 | 6 | 31 | 68 | 129 |
| South West | 0 | 15 | 65 | 113 | 145 |
| West Midlands | 0 | 29 | 48 | 82 | 159 |
| Yorkshire & Humber | 0 | 16 | 46 | 79 | 146 |
| Total | 0 | 152 | 397 | 788 | 1,258 |
The number of partnership development managers employed in England for each academic year since 1999–2000 is as follows:
Lord MacGregor of Pulham Market asked Her Majesty's Government:
Lord McIntosh of Haringey: The estimated start-up costs for the period 2003–04 to 2006–07 will cover around £56 million for IT costs and around £34 million for other administrative costs.
Baroness Noakes asked Her Majesty's Government:
1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04
East 0 0 3 7 18
East Midlands 0 2 7 13 17
London 0 3 7 30 37
North East 0 4 11 14 20
North West 0 9 16 23 31
South East 0 1 6 12 24
South West 0 3 11 19 24
West Midlands 0 6 10 14 25
Yorkshire & Humber 0 3 9 16 26
Total 0 31 80 148 222
Further to the statement by Lord McIntosh of Haringey on 26 February (HL Deb, col. 378), whether they will provide a breakdown of the £90 million start-up costs of the Child Trust Funds Bill.[HL1869]
Further to the statement by the Lord McIntosh of Haringey on 10 March 2004 (HL Deb col. 1278) that 57 per cent of private finance initiative projects are on the balance sheet, whether they will identify:
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(a) these projects, showing the amount for each that was on the balance sheet at the end of 2002–03 or is expected to be on the balance sheet at the end of 2003–04; and
(b) those private finance initiative projects which comprise the 43 per cent of projects that are not on the balance sheet.[HL1874]
Lord McIntosh of Haringey: Where the assets constructed under PFI contracts are reported on departmental balance sheets, the value reported is the full and fair value of the assets concerned.
The estimated capital value of signed PFI contracts where capital assets are accounted for on departmental balance sheets is £20.2 billion. This represents 57 per cent of the total estimated capital value. Those PFI contracts where the assets concerned are on departmental balance sheets are reported in departmental accounts.
A list of all PFI contracts signed to July 2003 is available on the HM Treasury public website at: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/documents/ public–private–partnerships/ppp pfi stats.cfm
Sport: Lottery Funding
Lord Dixon asked Her Majesty's Government:
- What was the National Lottery expenditure on sport, in each year since 1993–94, in (a) South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council; (b) Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council;
(c) North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council; (d) Newcastle Metropolitan Borough Council; and
- (e) Sunderland Metropolitan Borough Council.[HL1924]
Lord McIntosh of Haringey: The table shows how much lottery funding went to each local authority area for sport in each calendar year from 1995. These numbers are derived from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's database of lottery awards, which is based on information supplied by the lottery distributing bodies.
| Gateshead | Newcastle upon Tyne | North Tyneside | South Tyneside | Sunderland | Yearly Total | |
| 1995 | £555,079 | £500,500 | £6,629,015 | £107,420 | £672,450 | £8,464,464 |
| 1996 | £342,201 | £570,500 | £0 | £19,496 | £0 | £932,197 |
| 1997 | £400,852 | £0 | £11,500 | £27,489 | £1,225,502 | £1,665,343 |
| 1998 | £326,166 | £9,242,540 | £1,792,877 | £0 | £0 | £11,361,583 |
| 1999 | £51,731 | £507,633 | £2,220,140 | £6,900 | £5,018,592 | £7,804,996 |
| 2000 | £221,221 | £643,271 | £102,310 | £54,878 | £2,023,408 | £3,045,088 |
| 2001 | £1,799,493 | £2,934,935 | £397,483 | £412,073 | £370,671 | £5,914,655 |
| 2002 | £190,605 | £835,387 | £11,740 | £564,754 | £726,057 | £2,328,543 |
| 2003 | £0 | £1,280,612 | £0 | £0 | £50,000 | £1,330,612 |
| 2004 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| LA TOTAL | £3,887,348 | £16,515,378 | £11,165,065 | £1,193,010 | £10,086,680 | £42,847,481 |
Lord Dixon asked Her Majesty's Government:
- What proportion of the total National Lottery expenditure on sport was allocated to the Tyne and Wear area in each year since 1993–94.[HL1925]
Lord McIntosh of Haringey: The table shows, by calendar year, what proportion of all lottery sports funding in the UK went to the County of Tyne and Wear, since the start of the lottery.
| Year | % of all Lottery sports funding in Tyne and Wear |
| 1995 | 7.47 |
| 1996 | 0.65 |
| 1997 | 0.80 |
| 1998 | 4.41 |
| 1999 | 2.45 |
| 2000 | 0.83 |
| 2001 | 1.28 |
| 2002 | 0.75 |
| 2003 | 1.22 |
| 2004 | 0 |
| Average | 1.99 |
These numbers are for each calendar year and are derived from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport's database of lottery awards, which is based on information supplied by the lottery distributing bodies.
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