§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will list the eight contracted-out services referred to in his Department's press release 84/50, and give in each case the savings achieved together with the estimated cost of the related administrative tasks involved in the competitive tendering;
(2) which of the eight contracted-out services referred to in his Department's press release 84/50 replaced existing in-house provision; and if he will give in each case the number of jobs lost, the number of hours of work lost per week, the total value of the redundancy payments made and whether the savings were net of these payments.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeI understand that the estimated annual savings compared with the in-house tenders achieved by the health authorities concerned are Leeds Western £45,000, Medway £357,000, East Surrey £163,000, Maidstone £88,000, Bromley £58,000, North Warwickshire £70,000, Merton and Sutton £126,000, and North West Surrey £210,000. I would expect annual savings when compared with the previous cost of the service before the tendering process to be greater than this.
Region Location Bed complement Number of beds currently staffed and available Date of opening Northern St. Lukes Hospital, Middlesbrough 30 25 November 1980 Trent Towers Hospital, Leicester 60 15 July 1983 East Anglian St. Andrews Hospital, Norwich 36 10 May 1984 North East Thames Runwell Hospital, near Southend 10 10 April 1983 South Western Langdon Hospital, Dawlish, near Exeter 30 10 June 1983 Mersey Rainhill Hospital, Prescot, St. Helens 50 36 August 1983 The number of beds occupied by patients fluctuates from day to day and information about this is not collected centrally. In addition, seven Regions currently provide 260 beds in 13 designated interim secure units as follows:
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Region Location Bed complement Yorkshire Stanley Royal Hospital, Wakefield 18 North West Thames Leavesden Hospital, near Watford 62 St. Bernards Hospital, Ealing 14 South East Thames Oakwood Hospital, Maidstone 6 Cane Hill Hospital, Coulsdon Bethlem Royal Hospital, 6 Beckenham 15 Wessex Knowle Hospital, near Fareham 14 South Western St. Lawrence's Hospital, Bodmin 28 West Midlands Coleshill Hall, Birmingham Lea Castle, near 8 Kidderminster 18 Barnsley Hall, Bromsgrove 12 Central Hospital, near Warwick 15 North Western Prestwich Hospital, near Manchester 44 The contract at Medway replaced a management contract and those at Bromley, North Warwickshire, Merton and Sutton and North West Surrey replaced in-house provision. The other information requested is not held centrally.