HC Deb 17 December 1998 vol 322 cc618-9W
Mr. Lidington

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many official visits(a) he and (b) the Ministers in his Department have made to Buckinghamshire since 2 May 1997; and if he will list them. [64139]

Ms Jowell

Information on visits to Buckinghamshire is shown in the table.

Health authority Number of funding requests 1,2 Gross funding approved3 £
Cambridge and Huntingdon 5 127,400
City and East London 8 164,000
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly 13 301,800
County Durham 10 110,000
Coventry 1
Doncaster 5 32,900
Dorset 5 29,500
Dudley 1
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 9 112,600
East Kent 4
East Lancashire 15 44,000
East Norfolk 6 96,000
East Riding 13 184,500
East Sussex 3
Enfield and Haringey 8
Gloucestershire 18 172,000
Herefordshire 2 50,000
Isle of Wight 3 85,000
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 18
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 7 77,700
Leeds 3
Leicestershire 5 29,300
Lincolnshire 2 117,000
Liverpool 2 96,000
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 5 34,900
Morecambe Bay 10 137,000
Newcastle and North Tyneside 7 67,400
Northamptonshire 6 50,000
North Cheshire 1 50,000
North Cumbria 14 206,600
North Derbyshire 2 60,400
North and East Devon 7 253,800
North Essex 2 37,400
North and Mid Hampshire 19 185,200
North Staffordshire 10 168,800
North West Lancashire 7 161,800
North Yorkshire 30 169,400
North West Anglia 4
Health authority Number of funding requests 1,2 Gross funding approved3 £
Nottingham 7 35,700
Oxfordshire 7 222,000
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 18 170,500
Redbridge and Waltham Forest 6 57,700
Rotherham 10 141,500
Salford and Trafford 2 22,300
Sandwell 8
St. Helens and Knowsley 7
Shropshire 11 221,000
Somerset 17 132,000
Southern Derbyshire 4 12,000
South Cheshire 9 155,700
South Essex 4 40,000
South Humber 3 59,000
South Lancashire 5 23,300
South Staffordshire 7 55,000
South West Devon 10 213,700
Southampton and South West Hampshire 18 306,200
Stockport 1
Suffolk 6 109,000
Sunderland 6
Tees 3
Walsall 3
Warwickshire 1
West Hertfordshire 2 40,000
West Kent 3 80,200
West Surrey 8 168,100
West Sussex 30 90,600
Wigan and Bolton 4 63,200
Wiltshire 20 584,800
Wirral 4
Wolverhampton 5 50,000
Worcestershire 5 40,000
1 Number of requests includes re-submitted and revised applications.
2 Some requests are still to be considered.
3 Gross funding figures have been rounded up to the nearest hundred pounds.

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