HC Deb 30 November 2000 vol 357 cc754-5W
Mr. Alan W. Williams

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many medical assessment procedures were conducted at each of the testing centres in Wales in each calendar month from January to date. [141151]

Mr. Byers

Since January this year the Department has carried out a total 4,326 medical tests in Wales, some 1,769 full Medical Assessment Processes and 2,557 spirometry tests. These are broken down by centre as follows:

Spirometry MAP
Swansea1
January 359 0
February 31 0
March 47 22
April 34 45
May 34 29
June 1 68
July 39 59
August 54 63
September 73 52
October 3 79
November (to date) 0 93
Mountain Ash
January 625 0
February 207 1
March 89 0
April 144 1
May 78 3
June 16 76
July 111 82
August 111 78
September 32 127
October 60 141
November (to date) 79 123
Cardiff
January 9
February 1
March 1
April 0
May 1
June 1
July 6
August 3
September 1
October 2
November (to date) 2
Newport
January 116 1
February 38 8
March 27 15
April 7 45
May 6 78
June 5 89

Spirometry MAP
July 16 84
August 31 69
September 23 63
October 11 82
November (to date) 23 93
1 Healthcall have carried out spirometry assessments on all those claimants in the Swansea area for whom they have details but the centre will remain open to assess new claimants as and when their details are passed to Healthcall.
2The Cardiff centre is a spirometry only centre. As with Swansea, Healthcall have carried out spirometry assessments on all those claimants in the Cardiff area for whom they have details.