§ Jackie BallardTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how much money has been allocated to Investing in Dentistry up to 30 November; which health authority areas have applied for such funds to date; how much each has bid for; and how many applications have been successful in each health authority area. [62103]
§ Mr. MilburnSince the Investing in Dentistry initiative was announced in September last year, grants totalling £6,843,582 have been approved. The table gives details of the health authorities who submitted Investing in Dentistry funding requests to the Secretary of State in 1997–98 and 1998–99 to date, the gross amount of funding requested, and the number of applications approved.
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Investing in dentistry requests by Health Authority £ Health Authority Number of applications approved Gross funding requested Avon 4 428,100 Barnet — 214,900 Barnsley 3 124,200 Bedfordshire 2 30,000 Berkshire 5 175,000 Bexley and Greenwich — 396,000 Birmingham 1 76,700 Bradford 1 354,300 Bury and Rochdale — 33,100 Calderdale and Kirklees — 240,664 Cambridge and Huntingdon 4 396,400 City and East London 5 290,800 Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly 7 990,600 County Durham 3 332,905 Coventry — 49,000 Doncaster 2 119,400 Dorset 2 101,597 Dudley — 39,500 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 6 155,000
Investing in dentistry requests by Health Authority £ Health Authority Number of applications approved Gross funding requested East Kent — 518,400 East Lancashire 1 605,600 East Norfolk 3 453,800 East Riding 6 423,000 East Sussex — 60,000 Enfield and Haringay — 197,000 Gloucestershire 10 603,500 Herefordshire 2 60,000 Isle of Wight 2 165,000 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster — 267,000 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 2 207,000 Leeds — 492,455 Leicestershire 2 162,100 Lincolnshire 2 130,000 Liverpool 1 147,100 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 2 95,770 Morecombe Bay 6 226,500 Newcastle and North Tyneside 2 240,311 Northamptonshire 4 70,000 North Cheshire 1 50,000 North Cumbria 5 309,300 North Derbyshire 1 60,400 North and East Devon 7 295,600 North Essex 2 38,400 North and Mid Hampshire 7 579,900 North Staffordshire 6 276,500 North West Lancashire 5 311,700 North Yorkshire 8 550,900 North West Anglia — 90,000 Nottingham 2 222,800 Oxfordshire 6 242,000 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 8 719,400 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 4 209,700 Rotherham 6 312,700 Salford and Trafford 2 22,200 Sandwell — 151,000 St Helens and Knowsley 3 162,100 Shropshire 7 412,000 Somerset 5 722,200 Southern Derbyshire 1 116,600 South Cheshire 7 253,500 South Essex 1 45,000 South Humber 2 83,000 South Lancashire 1 187,400 South Staffordshire 2 143,000 South West Devon 8 282,000 Southampton and South West Hampshire 8 918,800 Stockport — 14,000 Suffolk 6 124,000 Sunderland — 207,620 Tees — 146,914 Walsall — 100,500 Warwickshire — 154,000 West Hertfordshire 1 107,900 West Kent 2 80,200 West Surrey 4 846,850 West Sussex 5 743,600 Wigan and Bolton 1 194,000 Wiltshire 14 1,128,600 Wirral — 123,000 Wolverhampton 1 132,500 Worcestershire 1 232,000 240 21,776,486 Note:
1. Gross funding figures have been rounded up to the nearest hundred pounds.
2. Some gross funding figures may be inflated due to the inclusion of revised or re-submitted applications.