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Coronary Angiography
Mr. French: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the guidelines provided under the terms of the patients charter on acceptable waiting times for coronary angiography. [16459]
Mr. Horam: The patients charter does not contain guidelines specifically on waiting times for coronary angiography. This procedure is normally carried out on an in-patient or day-care basis and where a patient is placed on a waiting list they must be admitted within 18 months of joining the list.
Mental Health
Dr. Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 18 December 1995, Official Report, column 939, if he will make a statement on the arrangements for making payments out of the mental health challenge fund. [16789]
Mr. Bowis:
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health published, on 20 February, the detailed criteria for applications to the mental health challenge fund, copies of which are available in the Library.
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Dr. Jones:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 18 December 1995, Official Report, column 939, what assessment he has made of the reports from regional directors of the NHS executive relating to health authorities' purchasing plans for mental health services. [16788]
Mr. Bowis:
My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health published, on 20 February, a review of the purchasing of mental health services by health authorities in England, copies of which are available in the Library.
Mr. Milburn:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many private finance initiative schemes for mental health services have now been agreed. [16796]
Mr. Horam:
Four private finance initiative schemes specifically for mental health services in the national health service have been approved, each valued at £1 million or more. Details of schemes with a capital cost of less than £1 million are not available centrally.
Mr. Milburn:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many psychiatric beds have closed in each year since 1980-81. [16795]
Mr. Bowis:
Information on the numbers of beds closed is not available centrally.
Mr. Tom Clarke:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many people have been provided with electrically powered indoor-outdoor wheelchairs by health authorities in England in each of the last three years; [17031]
(3) what expenditure has been incurred by health authorities in England for the purchase of electrically powered indoor-outdoor wheelchairs in each of the last three years; [17186]
(4) how many people have been provided with electrically powered indoor wheelchairs by health authorities in each of the last three years. [17196]
Mr. Bowis:
This information is not available centrally.
Mr. Clarke:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what is the most recent figure available for the cost of providing an individual with an electrically powered indoor-outdoor wheelchair; [16995]
Mr. Bowis:
The cost will depend on individual circumstances and the type of chair supplied.
Mr. Clarke:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what conclusions have been reached by the departmental working group set up by his Department to look at the feasibility of introducing a voucher scheme for the
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provision of indoor-outdoor and indoor electrically powered wheelchairs; and what is the proposed value of the voucher. [17016]
Mr. Bowis:
I refer the hon. Member to the reply that I gave my hon. Friend the Member for Hastings and Rye (Mrs. Lait) on 22 February at column 291.
Mr. Milburn:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if the additional resources he proposes to make available to social services authorities in England will fully reimburse the costs those authorities will incur as a result of the proposals relating to the treatment of capital for those in long-term residential care and nursing homes announced in November 1995; [16800]
Mr. Bowis:
We are currently discussing with local authority representatives the resources to be made available in respect of the changes in the treatment of capital. Decisions will be announced shortly.
Mr. Milburn:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he intends to raise the thresholds for treatment of capital for people in long-term residential care and nursing homes in future years. [16801]
Mr. Bowis:
We have already announced such an increase to come into effect on 8 April. Thereafter, the levels will be kept under review.
Mr. Milburn:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what data his Department collects on the costs to the NHS of the process of applying for private finance initiative schemes. [16790]
Mr. Horam:
I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave him on 15 January at column 337. Further information is not available centrally.
Mr. Milburn:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish details of the consortiums that have been successful in private finance initiative bids. [11211]
Mr. Horam
[pursuant to his reply, 23 January 1996, c. 159-61]: I regret that there was an error in the information provided.
The private sector partner for the United Leeds teaching hospital power station scheme is AHS Emstar Plc, not ULTH Charitable Trust/Medley as stated previously.
Mr. Churchill:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 8 February, Official Report, column 348, what have been the factors that have
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led to the delay in the publication of the report by the national review of renal services. [17093]
Mr. Horam:
Although the review was completed some time ago, it has taken a considerable time to consider all its implications. It was also necessary to commission additional work to develop a model to predict the changing pattern of need in this area. This is nearly complete and will be published with the purchasing guidance.
Ms Harman:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the total remuneration of each NHS district health authority general manager. [17402]
Mr. Malone:
The information will be placed in the Library. The figures need to be treated with caution. The payments listed represent renumeration in respect of the total gross salary, bonus payments, monetary value of benefits in kind, taxable expenses allowances and compensation payments in relation to the offices described--rather than to an individual. Thus payments listed for a particular district health authority could refer to more than one individual.
Mr. Congdon:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the total remuneration of NHS district health authorities' general managers in each year since 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995. [17163]
Mr. Malone:
The salaries and wages costs of national health service district health authority general managers for the years 1990-91 to 1994-95 are shown in the table:
(2) what expenditure has been incurred by health authorities in England for the purchase of electrically powered indoor wheelchairs in each of the last three years; [17072]
(2) what is the most recent figure available for the cost of providing an individual with an electrically powered indoor wheelchair. [17188]
(2) if he will monitor actual expenditure incurred by social services authorities in order to meet the requirements of the proposals relating to the treatment of capital for all people in long-term residential care and nursing homes announced in November 1995; and if he will make available additional funding to meet any shortfall between the resources provided for authorities and the expenditure they actually incur. [16802]
| £ | |
|---|---|
| 1990-91 | 11,363,000 |
| 1991-92 | 11,219,218 |
| 1992-93 | 11,685,299 |
| 1993-94 | 8,800, 247 |
| 1994-95 | 6,881,200 |
Source: The annual financial returns of district health authorities.
Notes:
1. The figures include employers' national insurance and superannuation contributions.
2. The 1994-95 figures are provisional.
Children Act 1989 (Contact Orders)
Mr. Gapes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the most frequent pattern of contact arranged under orders made under section 8 of the Children Act 1989. [15950]
Mr. Jonathan Evans: I have been asked to reply. The question concerns a specific operational matter on which the chief executive of the Court Service is best placed to provide an answer and accordingly I have asked him to reply direct.
Letter from M. D. Huebner to Mr. Mike Gapes, dated 23 February 1996:
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The Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department, has asked me to reply to your Question about section 8 orders. He was originally asked to reply to this Question by the Secretary of State for Health.
Mr. Gapes:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many court orders relating to contact or access broke down and involved the need for further court action (a) prior to and (b) since the coming into operation of the Children Act 1989. [15962]
The information requested is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Evans:
I have been asked to reply.
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The information requested is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Gapes:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the most frequent pattern of access or contact arranged by court orders prior to the Children Act 1989. [15949]
Mr. Evans:
I have been asked to reply.
The information requested is not available and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
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