§ Mr. LockTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list (i) the names of the beneficiaries of all the discretionary grants awarded by his Department to organisations within Worcestershire during 1998, (ii) their monetary value, (iii) their total value and (iv) the proportion that that total sum comprises of the total sums awarded by his Department in discretionary grants in 1998. [75252]
§ Mr. HuttonDiscretionary grants totalling £4,235,276 have been awarded to organisations within Worcestershire during 1998–99; details are in the table. This represents 0.78 per cent. of the funds available to the Department for such grants. The figures exclude the Asylum Seekers' Grant because decisions on the claims submitted have not yet been taken.
Medical Journal on 8 August 1998. Copies of the Journal are available in the library. Previous evidence suggests that screening for breast cancer reduces mortality by 25 per cent. in both age groups.