§ Brian CotterTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what funding has been made available to each local health authority to increase capacity for the treatment of patients. [40492]
§ Mr. Hutton[holding answer 7 March 2002]: In 2002–03 £425 million has been earmarked to expand acute capacity, increase activity levels and reduce waiting. This is in addition to funding from general allocations which can be spent to deliver waiting times by agreement 227W between primary care trusts (PCTs), health authorities (HAs) and NHS trusts and their partners locally. The earmarked funding will be used to:
Expand local capacity by expanding diagnostic and treatment centres and/or buying into spare capacity in public or private services locally or nationally;Commission extra activityPay for the consequential costs in community health and social care of this extra activity.In addition, capital funding of £179 million in 2001–02 and £329 million in 2002–03 for increasing activity and providing diagnostic and treatment centres was issued as part of general capital allocations. PCTs, HAs and NHS trusts and their local partners agree how the general capital allocation is spent.
The heath authority total allocations and earmarked funding for capacity are given in the table.
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2002–03 HA total allocations and earmarked funding for capacity £000 Health authority Total allocation Earmarked funding for capacity Bradford 414,737 4,306 Calderdale and Kirklees 480,687 4,986 County Durham 540,526 5,649 East Riding 474,977 4,816 Gateshead and South Tyneside 332,463 3,391 Leeds 6,28553 6,285 Newcastle and North Tyneside 436,790 4,393 North Cumbria 261,665 2,676 North Yorkshire 566,781 5,931 Northumberland 257,298 2,626 Sunderland 268,228 2,702 Tees 485,772 5,041 Wakefield 277,810 2,848 Barnsley 207,257 2,155 Doncaster 259,726 2,634 Leicestershire 682,748 7,262 Lincolnshire 519,957 5,378 North Derbyshire 300,013 3,056 North Nottinghamshire 313,543 3,226 Nottingham 519,138 5,408 Rotherham 210,533 2,147 Sheffield 477,104 4,777 South Derbyshire 448,542 4,724 South Humber 258,993 2,591 Bedfordshire 414,926 4,484 Cambridgeshire 525,529 5,529 Hertfordshire 802,649 8,241 Norfolk 611,615 6,346 North Essex 668,052 7,002 South Essex 554,308 5,876 Suffolk 519,352 5,352 Barking and Havering 333,897 3,421 Barnet, Enfield and Haringey 725,055 7,604 Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich 635,109 6,180 Brent and Harrow 432,599 4,293 Camden and Islington 477,910 4,584 Croydon 274,247 2,881 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 676,038 6,890 East London and the City 702,986 7,391 Hillingdon 203,317 2,063 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 436,168 4,787 Kingston and Richmond 284,506 2,939 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 829,552 8,099 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 563,125 5,655 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 399,542 3,951 Berkshire 588,572 6,340 Buckinghamshire 493,959 5,264 East Kent 521,292 5,226 East Surrey 324,719 3,217 East Sussex, Brighton and Hove 666,721 6,724
2002–03 HA total allocations and earmarked funding for capacity £000 Health authority Total allocation Earmarked funding for capacity Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 561,429 5,692 North and Mid Hampshire 381,685 3,969 Northamptonshire 429,544 4,450 Oxfordshire 445,458 4,713 Southampton and South West Hampshire 432,174 4,475 West Kent 744,108 7,606 West Surrey 485,877 4,835 West Sussex 618,829 6,302 Avon 774,501 7,987 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 416,197 4,213 Dorset 582,186 5,874 Gloucestershire 432,361 4,352 North and East Devon 393,334 4,019 Somerset 379,361 3,916 South and West Devon 499,768 5,045 Wiltshire 453,698 4,671 Birmingham 900,062 9,196 Coventry 267,745 2,773 Dudley 241,721 2,491 Herefordshire 130,657 1,347 North Staffordshire 403,322 4,154 Sandwell 268,794 2,757 Shropshire 326,945 3,416 Solihull 158,220 1,629 South Staffordshire 421,814 4,406 Walsall 217,042 2,256 Warwickshire 381,972 3,909 Wolverhampton 212,684 2,193 Worcestershire 393,056 4,073 Bury and Rochdale 332,127 3,413 East Lancashire 461,132 4,700 Liverpool 453,913 4,497 Manchester 461,845 4,593 Morecambe Bay 268,369 2,644 North Cheshire 261,550 2,614 North West Lancashire 424,129 4,276 Salford and Trafford 407,159 4,076 Sefton 254,961 2,481 South Cheshire 531,913 5,382 South Lancashire 247,205 2,509 St. Helen's and Knowsley 310,547 3,171 Stockport 231,170 2,390 West Pennine 392,430 4,075 Wigan and Bolton 494,170 5,193 Wirral 297,121 2,920 Total England 41,468,469 425,000