§ Mr. DobsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will give, for the last year for which figures are available, the total for England and Wales and a breakdown for each family practitioner committee of(a) the number of general practice premises and (b) the amount directly reimbursed to unrestricted principals in general practice for the cost of providing premises under the rent and rates scheme.
§ Mr. Freeman[holding answer 29 January 1990]: Information on the number of general practice premises is not collected centrally. Expenditure by family practitioner committees in England in 1988–89 on direct reimbursements to general medical practitioners under the rent and rates scheme is set out in the table. Information in relation to family practitioner services in Wales is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales.
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Direct Reimbursements to General Medical Practitioners for Rent and Rates Costs, 1988–89 Family Practitioner Committee £ Avon 1,530,724 Barking and Havering 852,785 Barnet 901,554 Barnsley 345,840 Bedfordshire 1,032,585 Berkshire 2,246,091 Birmingham 1,666,604 Bolton 247,554 Bradford 720,774 Brent and Harrow 1,397,754 Bromley 695,912 Buckinghamshire 1,723,275 Bury 175,821 Calderdale 304,813 Cambridgeshire 1,505,494 Camden and Islington 1,044,917 Cheshire 1,535,343 City and East London 1,471,921 Cleveland 733,423 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 911,570 Coventry 480,872 Croydon 601,840 Cumbria 633,392 Derbyshire 1,531,595 Devon 2,180,958 Doncaster 342,820 Dorset 1,647,729 Dudley 358,425 Durham 1,090,251 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 1,517,446 Enfield 1,166,622
Family Practitioner Committee £ Essex 3,779,781 Gateshead 301,954 Gloucestershire 1,294,082 Greenwich and Bexley 930,232 Hampshire 3,096,826 Hereford and Worcester 949,429 Hertfordhire 3,389,963 Hillingdon 430,269 Humberside 1,427,404 Isle of Wight 221,649 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 1,441,861 Kent 3,326,975 Kingston and Richmond 844,628 Kirklees 456,509 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 1,451,237 Lancashire 1,389,213 Leeds 1,492,844 Leicestershire 1,467,513 Lincolnshire 1,095,256 Liverpool 555,297 Manchester 659,697 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 1,061,783 Newcastle 518,812 Norfolk 1,810,574 Northamptonshire 1,087,571 Northumberland 403,850 Nottinghamshire 1,532,486 Oldham 138,171 Oxfordshire 1,027,203 Redbridge 1,154,744 Rochdale 271,419 Rotherham 303,989 Salford 306,683 Sandwell 519,122 Sefton 472,078 Sheffield 923,439 Shropshire 628,777 Solihull 384,447 Somerset 1,128,053 Stafford 1,168,285 Stockport 389,362 St. Helens 546,256 Suffolk 1,507,019 Sunderland 226,703 Surrey 2,200,146 Sussex, East 1,406,463 Sussex, West 1,567,749 Tameside 308,597 Trafford 282,560 Tyneside, North 330,536 Tyneside, South 197,803 Wakefield 686,481 Walsall 477,386 Warwickshire 1,053,852 Wigan 373,235 Wiltshire 987,911 Wirral 404,224 Wolverhampton 432,634 Yorkshire North 1,749,904 England 92,569,630 Notes:
- 1. Payments under the rent and rates scheme comprise direct reimbursements for rent, rates, notional rent, cost rents and local
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Flours and meals of meat and offals, greaves, unfit for human consumption Country December Year to date Kgs Value £ Kgs Value £ FR France 244,030 33,916 3,459,750 590,839 BE Belgium-Luxemburg 1,889,862 215,350 NL Netherlands 805,086 139,435 DE Federal Republic of Germany 23,000 6,468 73,000 20,557 IE Irish Republic 158,645 20,109 2,092,155 332,794 authority economic rents applicable to surgery premises.
2. Expenditure figures based on FPC annual accounts prepared on an income and expenditure basis.
§ Mr. MaddenTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations he has received about the impact upon those engaged in milk distribution from the discounting of welfare milk tokens; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Freeman[pursuant to his reply, 23 January 1990, column 682]: I regret that the reply contained an error.
The second sentence in the second paragraph should read:
Milk Tokens will continue to be issued in respect of pregnant women and children under five in families receiving income support and to handicapped children aged five to 16 who, because of their handicap, are not registered at a school.