§ Mr. JackTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many CT scanners there are per million of the population for(a) Merseyside and Cheshire, (b) Greater Manchester, (c) Lancashire and south Cumbria and (d) the north-west region. [19908]
§ Jacqui SmithI apologise to the hon. Member for the delay in responding to this question. I refer him to the reply that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State gave my hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, North and Fleetwood (Mrs. Humble) on 5 March 2002,Official Report, column 192W.
The information requested can be found in the following table:
Area Number of CT scanners Resident population1(Million) Number of CT scanners per million population1 Greater Manchester and Cheshire 21 2.7 7.7 Lancashire and south Cumbria 8 1.6 5.0 Merseyside and Cheshire 16 2.3 7.0 North west region 45 6.6 6.8 England 285 50 5.7 1 Approximate