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101W
Written Answers
26 OCTOBER 2009
Written Answers
102W
Phil Hope: The then Secretary of State attended the
annual Christmas drinks arranged by the Department
for journalists on 16 December 2008. The Department
did not host any other official Christmas functions last
year. Information about functions hosted by agencies is
not held centrally.
Continuing Care
Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for
Health how many people (a) in total and (b) per
50,000 of the population received continuing care in
each primary care trust area in England in each quarter
of 2008. [294767]
Phil Hope: I refer the hon. Member to the answer
given by my hon. Friend the Minister of State (Mr. Mike
O’Brien) on 9 September 2009, Official Report, columns
1979-984W.
Dental Services
Mr. Crausby: To ask the Secretary of State for
Health what estimate he has made of the percentage of
people in (a) Bolton and (b) England who have access
to an NHS dentist. [295305]
Ann Keen: Information on the number of patients
seen by an national health service dentist in the previous
24 months as a percentage of the population is available
in Table E4 of Annex 3 of the ‘NHS Dental Statistics
for England: 2008/09’ report. Information is provided
by primary care trust and strategic health authority in
England and is available at quarterly intervals, from
31 March 2006 to 30 June 2009.
This report, published on 19 August 2009, has already
been placed in the Library and is also available on the
NHS Information Centre website at:
www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dentalstats0809
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State
for Health whether (a) the Minister, (b) his advisers
and (c) officials of his Department saw the notes of the
visits by the Chief Dental Officer or his representatives
to (i) maxillofacial and (ii) dental hospitals which were
subsequently used in the production of the report by
the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board
on oral and maxillofacial surgery. [295835]
Ann Keen: As the report indicated, the terms of the
review did not extend to formal reporting on the visits.
Departmental officials who were members of the review
group have seen any notes taken. The Postgraduate
Medical Education and Training Board is an independent
regulatory body.
Dental Services: Leeds
John Battle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health
how many dentists were providing NHS services in
Leeds West constituency on the latest date for which
figures are available. [295347]
Ann Keen: The numbers of dentists with national
health service activity during the year ending 31 March
2009 are available in Table G1 of Annex 3 of the ‘NHS
Dental Statistics for England: 2008/09’report. Information
is provided for England and by strategic health authority
and primary care trust, but is not available by constituency.
This information is based on the new dental contractual
arrangements, introduced on 1 April 2006. This report,
published on 19 August 2009, has been placed in the
Library and is also available on The Information Centre
for health and social care website at:
www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/dentalstats0809
Following a recent consultation exercise, this measure
is based on a revised methodology and therefore supersedes
any previously published work force figures relating to
the new dental contractual arrangements. It is not
comparable to the information collected under the old
contractual arrangements. This revised methodology
counted the number of dental performers with NHS
activity recorded via FP17 claim forms in each year
ending 31 March.
These published figures relate to a headcount and do
not differentiate between full-time and part-time dentists,
nor do they account for the fact that some dentists may
do more NHS work than others.
Departmental Advertising
Mr. Scott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health
how much his Department spent on advertising (a) in
the printed press, (b) on television and (c) on radio in
each of the last three years. [295208]
Phil Hope: The following table shows the Department’s
spend on press, television and radio advertising in each
of the last three complete financial years.
It should be noted that the figures will not cover the
Department’s complete spend on advertising as other
media (posters, cinema, online) will also have been used
during the period.
Financial
year
Press
advertising
Regional
press
advertising
Television
advertising
£
Radio
advertising
2006-07 3,800,000 780,000 11,050,000 3,530,000
2007-08 4,080,000 850,000 10,250,000 3,160,000
2008-09 10,710,000 1,170,000 23,730,000 5,100,000
Notes:
1. Advertising spend is defined as covering only media spend (inclusive
of agency commissions but excluding production costs, COI commission
and VAT).
2. These figures do not include the Departments recruitment/classified
advertising costs and ad hoc spend under £10,000 and all sums have
been rounded to the nearest £10,000.
3. These figures may include occasional minor spend through COI by
NHS organisations, to supplement national campaigns in their area.
While this expenditure has been excluded as far as possible so that
these figures reflect central departmental spend, it would incur
disproportionate cost to validate that every item of NHS expenditure
has been removed.
Source:
Central Office of Information (COI)
Departmental Energy
Dr. Whitehead: To ask the Secretary of State for
Health whether his Department has a strategy for
voltage optimisation in its estate. [295277]
Phil Hope: The Department is currently sourcing
voltage optimiser products for use within departmental
buildings as part of our sustainable development measures
to reduce energy consumption.