HC Deb 30 January 2002 vol 379 cc424-6W
Helen Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the proportion of non-executive posts filled by people living in Warrington, North in health authorities and trusts covering the Warrington, North constituency(a) in 1997 and (b) at the latest available date. [28056]

Jacqui Smith

[holding answer 17 January 2002]: The information requested is given in the table:

Non-executive posts on national health service boards serving the Warrington North constituency occupied by people living in Warrington North1
1997(April) 2002(January)
Clatterbridge Centre Oncology NHS Trust 0(6) 0(6)
Mersey Regional Ambulance Service NHS Trust 0(5) 0(5)
North Cheshire Health Authority 1(6) 1(6)
North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust 2 1(6)
Non-executive posts on national health service boards serving the Warrington North constituency occupied by people living in Warrington North1
1997 (April) 2002 (January)
Warrington Community Trust 2(6) 2(6)
Warrington Primary Care Trust 2 30(0)
Warrington Hospital NHS Trust 0(6) 2
5 Boroughs NHS Trust 2 30(0)
Cheshire and Merseyside Strategic Health Authority 2 40(l)
Total 3(29) 4(30)
1Figures in brackets give total number of non-executives on board.
2Body did not exist or no longer exists
3No appointments made to date
4Only chair appointment made to date

Table 1: Number of nursing homes and private hospitals and clinics, 1997 to 2001—as at 31 March
Health authority1 19972 19982 19992 20002 20012
Barking and Havering 18 22 23 24 24
Barnet 29 34 35 36 32
Bexley and Greenwich 19 29 28 24 23
Brent and Harrow 24 32 37 35 37
Bromley 35 34 29 29 29
Camden and Islington 14 14 17 18 17
Croydon 33 36 40 3 38
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 23 33 30 34 32
East London and The City 15 16 26 19 20
Enfield and Haringey 30 32 31 28 29
Hillingdon 13 12 13 14 15
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 40 57 63 63 71
Kingston and Richmond 23 23 22 22 22
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 49 58 68 69 67
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 61 61 66 66 68
Redbridge and Waltham Forest 24 27 26 27 24
1Information on nursing homes is collected at health authority rather than local authority level.
2The number of homes in 1997 refers to the period 1 October 1996 to 31 March 1997
3Not available

Source:

Department of Health annual returns

Table 2: Number of residential care homes1,21997 to 2001
At 31 March
London Borough3 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
Barking and Dagenham 29 33 33 33 31
Barnet 112 130 127 132 126
Bexley 58 64 67 67 63
Brent 92 95 97 87 87
Bromley 112 100 107 107 99
Camden 70 66 56 55 47
City of London 0 0 0 0 0
Croydon 143 185 183 192 207
Ealing 101 120 100 72 100
Enfield 113 126 124 117 123
Greenwich 46 50 19 45 47
Hackney 39 39 34 38 46
Hammersmith and Fulham 34 33 4 33 32
Haringey 104 94 109 116 122
Harrow 77 76 75 77 76
Havering 66 61 64 63 65
Hillingdon 68 70 67 71 68
Hounslow 39 44 43 48 40
Islington 43 42 55 41 40
Kensington and Chelsea 22 21 18 18 16
Kingston-upon-Thames 71 70 71 66 65
Lambeth 119 115 114 108 105
Lewisham 83 76 87 84 85
Merton 54 52 60 56 61
Newham 47 52 50 55 57
Redbridge 69 77 72 75 70
Richmond-upon-Thames 54 63 59 55 55
Southwark 78 46 73 72 72
Sutton 62 64 62 60 59
Tower Hamlets 31 28 28 28 23
Waltham Forest 99 98 118 109 108
Wandsworth 80 77 78 98 95
Westminster 40 41 35 36 35