§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what estimate he has made of the total savings to public funds of the Private Finance Initiative contract for the Richmond Friary Community Hospital for the Northallerton Health Services NHS Trust by comparison with a non-Private Finance Initiative alternative; [49511]
(2) what estimate he has made of the total savings to public funds of the Private Finance Initiative contract for Withernsea Community Hospital for the Hull and East Riding Community Health NHS Trust by comparison with a non-Private Finance Initiative alternative; [49509]
(3) what estimate he has made of the total savings to public funds of the Private Finance Initiative contract for Leeds Road Hospital-Horton Park Centre for Bradford Community Health NHS Trust by comparison with a non-Private Finance Initiative alternative. [49547]
§ Jacqui SmithThe business case justifying the individual schemes estimated the net savings in present value terms (ie all future costs and benefits discounted to their present values) compared with publicly funding the scheme is set out in the table.
§ Yvette CooperThe number of paediatric intensive care beds that are funded, established and staffed for each quarter for the last five years is not collected centrally.
The number of available paediatric intensive care beds is collected in an annual census. Available beds are those beds available to be used/or being used by patients. The information is given in the following table.
Paediatric intensive care beds available at 31 March, England Available number of paediatric intensive care beds 31 March 2001 291 31 March 2000 280 31 March 1999 278 31 March 1998 289 31 March 1997 235 Source:
Department of Health form KH03