Green Transport Co-ordinator

HC Deb 03 March 1998 vol 307 cc563-4W

Mr. Baker

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he appointed a Green Transport co-ordinator; and on what date the appointment took effect. [32469]

Ms Jowell

The Guide to Green Transport Plans circulated last September by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, my hon. Friend the Member for Hampstead and Highgate (Ms Jackson), encouraged departments to appoint green transport co-ordinators. The Department appointed a co-Ordinator in January.

Mr. Burstow

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will set out for each category of continence product purchased by the NHS National Supplies Trust in each of the last four years(a) the numbers of items purchased, (b) the total cost, (c) the percentage change in the number purchased from year to year; and what were the totals for all categories of continence products. [31867]

Mr. Boateng

[holding answer 2 March 1998]: The available data (for only the last two years) are contained in the table. The overall drop in value and volume is likely to be explained by the ongoing trend towards home delivery rather than products going through National Health Service Supplies warehouses.