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Mencap

Hugh Bayley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations he has received recently from Mencap about housing for older people with learning disabilities; and if he will make a statement. [64473]

Jacqui Smith: We recognise that there is particular concern about the position of people with learning disabilities living with older carers aged 70 and over. They and their families must be able to plan for the future in good time. Promoting supported living for older people with learning disabilities is one of the priorities for both

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the revenue and capital elements of the £42 million learning disability development fund, announced in the White Paper "Valuing People: A New Strategy for Learning Disability for the 21st Century" published in March 2001. The fund has been made available to the new learning disability partnership boards, now established in each local authority area. Each partnership board has produced a local plan to improve services for people with learning disabilities and their families.

I have received a copy of Mencap's report, "The Housing Timebomb" (June 2002), which considers housing, care and support issues affecting people with learning disabilities living with older parents. We will consider the report and its recommendations carefully.

Audiology Services

Mr. Berry: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to spend more than the £20 million investment in audiology services announced on 24 December 2001. [65084]

Jacqui Smith: Since 2000–01, we have invested £30.75 million in modernising hearing aid services, including the provision of digital hearing aids. Recently a team led by James Strachan, chief executive of Royal National Institute for the Deaf, has been successful in negotiating a significant reduction in the cost to the national health service of purchasing digital hearing aids. These price reductions will enable the rollout of modernised services to proceed more quickly.

Health Action Zone (Cumbria)

Dr. Jack Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what policy initiatives have been introduced by the Health Action Zone in Cumbria; what progress has been made in identifying problems needing special attention; and if he will make a statement. [64855]

Jacqui Smith: Over the last year the ethos of the North Cumbria health action has changed following the development of local health groups. These groups determine the needs of their respective areas and the appropriate degree of resources.

A number of projects have been funded by the local health group in Copeland over the last 12 months. These include:

Welfare advice in primary care;


A physical activity directory;


A healthy communities worker;


Debt advice service;


A community cardiac rehabilitation programme manager;


Howgill community garden;


A smoking cessation adviser; as well as a number of smaller local projects such as the;


Aqua aerobics in Mirehouse and healthy eating and physical activity in Distington.

Private Finance Initiative (Bradford)

Mr. Rooney: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the status is of the Bradford Hospital Trust PFI bid to redevelop Bradford Royal Infirmary and St. Luke's Hospital. [64868]

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Jacqui Smith [holding answer 27 June 2002]: Bradford Hospitals National Health Service Trust is currently preparing their outline business case for this scheme. Subject to its approval, the trust is expected to go out to tender by placing an Official Journal of the European Community notice early next year.

Care Provision

Mr. Drew: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish statistics for levels for the provision of care, broken down by area. [65016]

Jacqui Smith [holding answer 27 June 2002]: The Department publishes a wide range of health and social care statistics for relevant areas and some of these statistics are available broken down by level of care. As well as printed publications available in the Library, these statistics may be found on the Department's website.

The address for health care statistics is: www.doh.gov.uk/ public/pub_health_care.htm.

The address for social care statistics is: www.doh.gov.uk/ public/pub_social_care.htm.

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Figures on national health service in-patient care are available for a range of areas from the hospital episode statistics (HES) database and may be found at the HES website at: www.doh.gov.uk/hes/index.html.

Stroke

Mr. Jim Cunningham: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many hospitals have not been equipped with stroke units; and in which areas they are. [60133]

Jacqui Smith [holding answer 12 June 2002]: Stroke sentinel audits 1999–2001 carried out by the Royal College of Physicians, showed that the number of people treated in a stroke unit had increased. However, none of the data identify individual hospitals. The next audit will be available later this year.

The monitoring of the national service framework stroke standard, April 2002 milestone, requiring the development of integrated stroke services will be available shortly.

Fostering

Mr. Burstow: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many foster parents were registered by (a) region and (b) health authority in each of the last five years. [61355]

Jacqui Smith [holding answer 17 June 2002]: The information available is shown in the table.

Details of the numbers of approved foster carers taken from the TSP application forms for the five years 1998–99 to 2002–03

	1998–99			1999–2000			2000–01
Local authority names	Directly contracted by local council	Contracted via independent agency	Total number of foster carers	Directly contracted by local council	Contracted via independent agency	Total number of foster carers	Directly contracted by local council	Contracted via independent agency	Total number of foster carers
Barking and Dagenham	116	10	126	89	10	99	77	33	110
Barnet	66	0	66	79	18	97	83	40	123
Barnsley	147	0	147	137	0	137	122	7	129
Bath and North East Somerset	101	2	103	97	6	103	99	6	105
Bedfordshire	156	12	168	139	13	152	190	13	203
Bexley	113	32	145	87	31	118	108	15	123
Birmingham	707	67	774	670	62	732	657	0	657
Blackburn	78	0	78	80	0	80	63	1	64
Blackpool	88	0	88	97	4	101	91	0	91
Bolton	150	1	151	149	1	150	152	1	153
Bournemouth	84	0	84	72	0	72	84	4	88
Bracknell Forest	45	0	45	32	1	33	70	0	70
Bradford	186	0	186	185	0	185	190	0	190
Brent	162	23	185	150	45	195	114	58	172
Brighton and Hove	233	8	241	344	6	350	336	9	345
Bristol	272	40	312	232	40	272	232	40	272
Bromley	103	29	132	77	82	159	77	82	159
Buckinghamshire	141	0	141	126	9	135	275	0	275
Bury	124	4	128	133	5	138	108	6	114
Calderdale	132	0	132	120	6	126	120	2	122
Cambridgeshire	323	0	323	295	4	299	281	3	284
Camden	93	0	93	106	40	146	132	33	165
Cheshire	444	0	444	444	0	444	360	0	360
City of London	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cornwall	355	0	355	325	0	325	342	1	343
Coventry	229	9	238	208	32	240	210	40	250
Croydon	0	0	0	149	6	155	281	14	295
Cumbria	298	3	301	295	0	295	250	2	252
Darlington	48	0	48	54	8	62	59	7	66
Derby City	368	0	368	210	3	213	184	4	188
Derbyshire	444	0	444	444	0	444	447	2	449
Devon	326	6	332	363	8	371	363	8	371
Doncaster	130	0	130	130	0	130	233	2	235
Dorset	276	0	276	276	0	276	263	0	263
Dudley	152	0	152	150	4	154	150	4	154
Durham	237	1	238	256	1	257	215	0	215
Ealing	110	0	110	180	0	180	125	0	125
East Riding of Yorkshire	109	0	109	205	0	205	170	0	170
East Sussex	347	0	347	347	0	347	300	0	300
Enfield	0	0	0	107	11	118	107	11	118
Essex	514	34	548	625	5	630	430	0	430
Gateshead	133	0	133	120	2	122	120	0	120
Gloucestershire	330	0	330	266	0	266	650	140	790
Greenwich	135	0	135	150	35	185	150	35	185
Hackney	250	0	250	160	12	172	183	50	233
Halton	61	0	61	57	0	57	68	2	70
Hammersmith and Fulham	65	0	65	155	40	195	188	56	244
Hampshire	670	19	689	910	0	910	750	0	750
Haringey	289	109	398	128	11	139	128	11	139
Harrow	86	5	91	160	4	164	119	15	134
Hartlepool	72	1	73	69	3	72	67	0	67
Havering	106	0	106	74	6	80	100	0	100
Herefordshire	162	0	162	138	2	140	143	4	147
Hertfordshire	445	0	445	472	10	482	470	10	480
Hillingdon	67	0	67	76	19	95	97	51	148
Hounslow	132	32	164	72	23	95	42	34	76
Hull	267	18	285	284	18	302	314	4	318
Isle of Wight	190	0	190	110	0	110	115	0	115
Isles of Scilly	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Islington	151	25	176	151	0	151	151	0	151
Kensington and Chelsea	104	0	104	104	0	104	104	0	104
Kent	605	0	605	609	6	615	620	15	635
Kingston Upon Thames	65	1	66	75	0	75	75	0	75
Kirklees	104	1	105	107	1	108	113	0	113
Knowsley	164	0	164	164	0	164	164	0	164
Lambeth	0	0	0	0	0	0	130	0	130
Lancashire	587	13	600	550	19	569	500	35	535
Leeds	420	0	420	430	0	430	430	0	430
Leicester City	196	0	196	190	0	190	210	0	210
Leicestershire	220	0	220	256	0	256	270	0	270
Lewisham	186	0	186	200	30	230	220	40	260
Lincolnshire	300	60	360	277	3	280	263	3	266
Liverpool	530	1	531	390	0	390	400		400
Luton	169	0	169	110	0	110	91	23	114
Manchester	420	40	460	420	0	420	360	29	389
Medway	160	0	160	165	6	171	165	6	171
Merton	120	1	121	120	1	121	104	3	107
Middlesbrough	110	0	110	70	2	72	77	3	80
Milton Keynes	267	47	314	216	37	253	220	35	255
Newcastle Upon Tyne	230	0	230	203	25	228	270	37	307
Newham	227	25	252	246	29	275	253	22	275
Norfolk	617	0	617	501	1	502	509	10	519
North East Lincolnshire	127	0	127	114	1	115	114	1	115
North Lincolnshire	176	0	176	179	0	179	186	0	186
North Somerset	160	0	160	160	0	160	160	0	160
North Tyneside	140	0	140	185	2	187	135	0	135
North Yorkshire	300	0	300	160	0	160	360	0	360
Northamptonshire	708	28	736	720	28	748	564	0	564
Northumberland	170	0	170	160	2	162	140	2	142
Nottingham	243	25	268	45	25	70	220	15	235
Nottinghamshire	327	0	327	400	0	400	420	13	433
Oldham	143	0	143	141	3	144	144	1	145
Oxfordshire	355	0	355	350	0	350	350	3	353
Peterborough	160	0	160	152	14	166	150	0	150
Plymouth	135	9	144	132	0	132	261	0	261
Poole	64	1	65	64	1	65	75	1	76
Portsmouth	102	6	108	109	9	118	107	7	114
Reading	47	0	47	59	8	67	58	4	62
Redbridge	78	3	81	80	4	84	92	5	97
Redcar and Cleveland	70	0	70	65	0	65	70	0	70
Richmond Upon Thames	52	0	52	46	5	51	45	12	57
Rochdale	73	0	73	76	0	76	81	4	85
Rotherham	245	0	245	120	0	120	133	0	133
Rutland	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	3
Salford	270	0	270	396	0	396	460	10	470
Sandwell	330	6	336	330	6	336	220	6	226
Sefton	214	0	214	221	0	221	236	0	236
Sheffield	390	0	390	650	1	651	650	1	651
Shropshire	232	0	232	227	0	227	205	0	205
Slough	0	0	0	58	3	61	60	7	67
Solihull	79	9	88	111	8	119	60	5	65
Somerset	714	0	714	701	0	701	556	3	559
South Gloucestershire	92	10	102	110	6	116	122	3	125
South Tyneside	142	0	142	142	0	142	142	0	142
Southampton	250	0	250	250	0	250	206	12	218
Southend	87	0	87	97	0	97	150	0	150
Southwark	206	0	206	206	0	206	290	0	290
St. Helens	83	8	91	73	12	85	73	18	91
Staffordshire	327	18	345	365	10	375	367	85	452
Stockport	150	0	150	150	0	150	150	0	150
Stockton	93	0	93	83	0	83	69	5	74
Stoke on Trent	156	1	157	152	2	154	162	1	163
Suffolk	225	0	225	225	0	225	280	0	280
Sunderland	218	0	218	218	0	218	218	0	218
Surrey	264	0	264	229	16	245	256	29	285
Sutton	70	0	70	51	10	61	55	10	65
Swindon	165	0	165	279	0	279	310	0	310
Tameside	122	0	122	130	12	142	120	11	131
Thurrock	48	0	48	52	1	53	82	0	82
Torbay	85	0	85	75	0	75	79	0	79
Tower Hamlets	101	0	101	135	0	135	117	0	117
Trafford	69	0	69	67	0	67	81	0	81
Wakefield	286	0	286	280	0	280	235	0	235
Walsall	120	2	122	120	9	129	147	15	162
Waltham Forest	136	15	151	76	11	87	110	15	125
Wandsworth	177	0	177	183	5	188	167	10	177
Warrington	171	0	171	109	0	109	120	0	120
Warwickshire	369	0	369	395	0	395	560	0	560
West Berkshire	0	0	0	49	0	49	54	14	68
West Sussex	453	15	468	500	30	530	500	25	525
Westminster	86	0	86	87	2	89	102	23	125
Wigan	101	0	101	191	0	191	170	4	174
Wiltshire	400	0	400	280	0	280	190	0	190
Windsor and Maidenhead	56	0	56	46	5	51	44	1	45
Wirral	143	0	143	150	0	150	160	0	160
Wokingham	63	0	63	63	0	63	63	0	63
Wolverhampton	210	8	218	202	11	213	184	0	184
Worcestershire	390	2	392	760	12	772	439	16	455
Wrekin	88	0	88	101	3	104	146	10	156
York	80	0	80	55	2	57	57	4	61
Total	29,805	845	30,650	30,166	1,085	31,251	30,645	1,532	32,177

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	2001–02			2002–03
Local authority names	Directly contracted by local council	Contracted via independent agency	Total number of foster carers	Directly contracted by local council	Contracted via independent agency	Total number of foster carers
Barking and Dagenham	46	0	46	75	0	75
Barnet	79	50	129	110	27	137
Barnsley	130	0	130	177	0	177
Bath and North East Somerset	137	6	143	129	10	139
Bedfordshire	157	35	192	174	0	174
Bexley	116	10	126	106	0	106
Birmingham	934	217	1,151	934	217	1,151
Blackburn	66	0	66	87	6	93
Blackpool	101	0	101	111	0	111
Bolton	150	0	150	150	1	151
Bournemouth	80	0	80	80	0	80
Bracknell Forest	71	0	71	45	0	45
Bradford	185	0	185	173	0	173
Brent	103	57	160	146	12	158
Brighton and Hove	225	33	258	289	60	349
Bristol	244	40	284	248	40	288
Bromley	80	158	238	100	60	160
Buckinghamshire	165	10	175	137	10	147
Bury	132	0	132	172	0	172
Calderdale	115	0	115	66	0	66
Cambridgeshire	271	11	282	280	11	291
Camden	85	0	85	130	0	130
Cheshire	714	0	714	762	0	762
City of London	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cornwall	351	3	354	334	0	334
Coventry	166	0	166	170	0	170
Croydon	252	30	282	218	0	218
Cumbria	240	6	246	210	0	210
Darlington	49	12	61	51	0	51
Derby City	184	0	184	186	0	186
Derbyshire	455	0	455	455	0	455
Devon	310	26	336	303	30	333
Doncaster	170	0	170	244	0	244
Dorset	256	1	257	251	0	251
Dudley	25	0	25	124	7	131
Durham	215	0	215	225	0	225
Ealing	125	0	125	117	0	117
East Riding of Yorkshire	75	19	94	70	19	89
East Sussex	264	25	289	253	0	253
Enfield	93	0	93	93	0	93
Essex	479	0	479	506	0	506
Gateshead	130	0	130	130	0	130
Gloucestershire	650	140	790	270	0	270
Greenwich	126	65	191	92	0	92
Hackney	170	57	227	0	0	0
Halton	73	0	73	68	0	68
Hammersmith and Fulham	188	60	248	182	54	236
Hampshire	364	0	364	1,100	0	1,100
Haringey	128	11	139	196	35	231
Harrow	74	0	74	70	0	70
Hartlepool	67	0	67	54	1	55
Havering	78	8	86	84	0	84
Herefordshire	145	3	148	156	4	160
Hertfordshire	500	10	510	393	0	393
Hillingdon	97	50	147	103	50	153
Hounslow	43	0	43	48	0	48
Hull	333	0	333	330	22	352
Isle of Wight	120	0	120	155	0	155
Isles of Scilly	0	0	0	0	0	0
Islington	109	0	109	93	0	93
Kensington and Chelsea	94	0	94	94	0	94
Kent	685	25	710	800	0	800
Kingston Upon Thames	75	0	75	73	0	73
Kirklees	120	3	123	143	5	148
Knowsley	164	0	164	160	0	160
Lambeth	119	157	276	130	0	130
Lancashire	500	35	535	520	0	520
Leeds	385	0	385	380	0	380
Leicester City	235	3	238	250	0	250
Leicestershire	274	0	274	251	0	251
Lewisham	152	31	183	143	0	143
Lincolnshire	291	0	291	288	0	288
Liverpool	350	0	350	412	0	412
Luton	109	0	109	118	0	118
Manchester	401	21	422	401	0	401
Medway	170	6	176	170	6	176
Merton	90	3	93	113	0	113
Middlesbrough	86	11	97	99	9	108
Milton Keynes	192	0	192	207	0	207
Newcastle Upon Tyne	321	19	340	290	28	318
Newham	288	70	358	237	40	277
Norfolk	882	30	912	872	47	919
North East Lincolnshire	110	11	121	146	9	155
North Lincolnshire	136	0	136	142	0	142
North Somerset	92	0	93	160	0	160
North Tyneside	140	0	140	155	0	155
North Yorkshire	360	0	360	178	15	193
Northamptonshire	576	0	576	580	0	580
Northumberland	172	2	174	172	2	174
Nottingham	195	17	212	227	0	227
Nottinghamshire	415	19	434	415	19	434
Oldham	117	0	117	118	28	146
Oxfordshire	350	0	350	330	13	343
Peterborough	130	0	130	145	0	145
Plymouth	270	0	270	260	0	260
Poole	77	4	81	91	4	95
Portsmouth	107	0	107	108	0	108
Reading	64	4	68	70	0	70
Redbridge	92	4	96	99	1	100
Redcar and Cleveland	70	0	70	61	0	61
Richmond Upon Thames	56	7	63	42	0	42
Rochdale	126	7	133	100	21	121
Rotherham	120	0	120	154	0	154
Rutland	3	0	3	3	0	3
Salford	439	50	489	441	52	493
Sandwell	220	0	220	310	0	310
Sefton	233	0	233	130	0	130
Sheffield	388	0	388	334	24	358
Shropshire	207	0	207	113	0	113
Slough	48	8	56	29	0	29
Solihull	71	0	71	59	0	59
Somerset	704	0	704	628	2	630
South Gloucestershire	121	3	124	125	3	128
South Tyneside	97	15	112	61	0	61
Southampton	205	10	215	205	10	215
Southend	195	0	195	105	0	105
Southwark	210	30	240	170	0	170
St. Helens	75	16	91	90	0	90
Staffordshire	478	0	478	360	0	360
Stockport	192	84	276	189	86	275
Stockton	73	9	82	0	0	0
Stoke on Trent	170	7	177	178	32	210
Suffolk	350	0	350	350	0	350
Sunderland	238	0	238	301	0	301
Surrey	212	37	249	307	0	307
Sutton	63	21	84	67	9	76
Swindon	259	0	259	189	0	189
Tameside	98	7	105	102	0	102
Thurrock	82	0	82	56	0	56
Torbay	133	0	133	126	0	126
Tower Hamlets	109	0	109	200	0	200
Trafford	84	4	88	90	21	111
Wakefield	240	0	240	245	0	245
Walsall	180	13	193	142	0	142
Waltham Forest	76	3	79	83	5	88
Wandsworth	157	3	160	0	0	0
Warrington	93	0	93	180	0	180
Warwickshire	573	0	573	516	0	516
West Berkshire	52	15	67	73	14	87
West Sussex	463	17	480	463	0	463
Westminster	102	23	125	110	0	110
Wigan	170	4	174	65	0	65
Wiltshire	250	0	250	240	0	240
Windsor and Maidenhead	37	0	37	38	0	38
Wirral	196	0	196	240	0	240
Wokingham	28	0	28	28	0	28
Wolverhampton	170	0	170	160	0	160
Worcestershire	219	0	329	281	0	281
Wrekin	95	0	95	181	19	200
York	125	2	127	71	6	77
Total	30,342	2,023	32,365	30,353	1,206	31,559

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