HC Deb 07 November 1996 vol 284 cc633-4W
Dr. Lynne Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the primary care projects in England to help homeless people funded by his Department. [1033]

Mr. Burns

The Department has funded 35 primary health care projects in England to help homeless people to access the health care services that they need. These projects are listed in the following table. Main funding for the 35 schemes finished by 31 March 1996 but the Department still monitors the schemes and continues to make available non cash-limited funding for general practitioner sessions for 26 projects.

Primary Health Care Projects

Projects that no longer receive cash limited funding but continue to receive non-cash limited funding, for GP sessions only:

  • Bath
  • Birmingham
  • Bradford
  • Cambridge
  • Camden and Islington
  • City and East London
  • Cricklewood
  • Durham
  • Ealing
  • Hereford and Worcester
  • Kensington and Chelsea
  • Kirklees
  • Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham
  • Leeds
  • Milton Keynes
  • Newcastle
  • Nottingham
  • Oxford
  • Peasholme
  • Peterborough
  • Preston
  • Reading
  • Sheffield
  • Southampton
  • Toxteth
  • Whitechapel

Projects that no longer receive cash limited or non-cash limited funding:

  • Blackpool
  • Brighton
  • Bristol
  • Croydon
  • Fazakerley
  • Gloucester
  • Hammersmith
  • Maidstone
  • Morecambe.

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