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1 DECEMBER 2010
Written Answers
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Additional grant funding, rising to £1 billion by 2014-15, will
be made available for social care. This funding will be allocated in
addition to the Department’s existing social care grants, which
will rise in line with inflation. Total grant funding from the
Department for social care will reach £2.4 billion by 2014-15. In
order to support local flexibility and to reduce administrative
burdens, this funding will go to authorities through the revenue
support grant.
This means that, with an ambitious programme of
efficiency, there is enough funding available both to
protect people’s access to care and deliver new approaches
to improve quality and outcomes.
A key priority for the Government is a radical devolution
of power away from central Government, freeing local
government from central control and empowering local
people to take an active role in services. Decisions on
spending at a local level must be considered in the
context of local priorities, which are crafted by local
authorities in response to the needs and wishes of the
people they serve. Spending on social care will therefore
be a decision for the relevant local authority, and it is
not possible to provide a central estimate.
South London Healthcare NHS Trust
Mr Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for Health
what recent assessment he has made of the financial
performance of South London Healthcare NHS Trust.
[26268]
Mr Simon Burns: The Department has identified six
trusts as financially challenged, including South London
Healthcare NHS Trust. The Department will continue
to work with London strategic health authority to
ensure that, during 2010-11, South London Healthcare
NHS Trust has plans in place to return to financial
balance, whilst at the same time maintaining and improving
services to patients.
Surgery: Waiting Lists
Derek Twigg: To ask the Secretary of State for Health
what estimate he has made of the average waiting time
for elective surgery by the end of the comprehensive
spending review period. [26528]
Mr Simon Burns: Clinical priority will remain the
main determinant of when patients should be treated.
Patients should not experience undue delay at any stage
of their treatment and would not expect a return to long
waiting times for operations.
The national health service (NHS) will be accountable
locally to the public it serves and provide information to
patients which will drive choice and competition in the
NHS.
Tuberculosis: Greater London
Number of tuberculosis cases reported in the London borough of
Bexley, 2007-09
Number of cases
2007 27
2008 23
2009 17
Source:
Health Protection Agency
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS
Trust
Mark Pawsey: To ask the Secretary of State for
Health what his estimate is of the proportion of the
running costs of University Hospital Coventry and
Warwickshire (a) which was paid to the private finance
initiative provider in each year from 2005-06 to 2009-10
and (b) will be paid to that provider in 2010-11 and
2011-12. [26153]
Mr Simon Burns: The information is not available in
the format requested. However, data for the proportion
of total revenue expenditure by University Hospitals
Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust in respect of its
private finance initiative (PFI) scheme, is set out in the
following table.
Figures for 2005-06 and 2006-07 are not comparable
with later years as the PFI hospital did not fully open
until part way through 2006-07.
Data are not held centrally for 2010-11 or 2011-12.
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust—
proportion of total revenue expenditure relating to PFI
Percentage of total revenue
expenditure relating to PFI
2005-06 4.3
2006-07 12.7
2007-08 14.6
2008-09 14.6
2009-10 1 14.3
1
2009-10 accounts were compiled under International Finance Reporting
Standards under which PFI costs in the audited summarisation
schedules of trusts are split between capital repayments and revenue
expenditure elements, which does not make a precise like for like
comparison with earlier years in this table possible. However, an
estimate of the PFI unitary payment for 2009-10 is held centrally by
the Department as well as the audited outturn revenue expenditure
figure for the trust for this year and the percentage figure for this year
is calculated using these two figures.
Notes:
1. The source of the data is the audited summarisation schedules of
the trust for 2005-06 to 2009-10.
2. The percentages provided represent the net revenue expenditure in
respect of PFI schemes as a proportion of total revenue expenditure.
3. 2005-06 to 2008-09 figures compiled under UK Generally Accepted
Accounting Practice.
Young People: Autism
Mr Evennett: To ask the Secretary of State for Health
how many cases of tuberculosis have been diagnosed in
the London Borough of Bexley in each of the last three
years. [26267]
Anne Milton: The information requested is shown in
the following table.
Jessica Lee: To ask the Secretary of State for Health
whether his Department issues guidance on referring
young people with autism who receive support from
child and adolescent mental health services and do not
fulfil the criteria for adult mental health teams to
appropriate support from other services on reaching
adulthood. [26443]