§ Ms KellyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to the Bolton, West constituency, the effects on Bolton, West of his Department's policies and actions since 2 May 1997.[150607]
§ Mr. Denham[holding answer 5 February 2001]: Detailed information on the impact of Department of Health policies nationally is set out in the Department of Health Annual Reports. A copy of the most recent report, "Department of lit alth—Government Expenditure Plans 2000–01", is available in the Library and on the Department of Health website at www.doh.gov.uk/dhreport.
The impact of policies is not examined by constituency and statistics collected centrally by the Department are not collected on a constituency basis.
435WMy hon. Friend's constituency falls within the geographical area covered by Wigan and Bolton health authority and Wigan and Bolton social services authorities.
Increases in allocations between 1996–97 and 2001–02 for Wigan and Bolton health authority are shown in the table.
Increases in allocations between 1996–97 and 2001–02 Increase £ million (Cash) 122.7 million (Real terms) 80.3 Percentage (Cash) 40.9 Percentage (Real terms) 24.8 Note:
Increases for 1999–2000 onwards are for unified allocations which cover hospital and community health services, prescribing and discretionary family health services. Those for previous years cover hospital and community health services only
Wigan and Bolton health authority has also received additional funding for certain polices. This includes: £3.1 million for accident and emergency modernisation between 1997–98 and 2000–01: £456,000, £210,000, £347,000 and £239,000 for improving cancer services (breast, colorectal, lung and cancer outpatients) in 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999–2000 and 2000–01 respectively; £3.7 million recurrently in 1999–2000 and £3.4 million recurrently in 2000–01 to reduce wailing times and lists; £4.5 million in 1998–99, £165,000 in 1999–2000 and £333,000 in 2000–01 non recurrenty to reduce waiting times and lists; £0.9 million to expand critical care services in 2000–01; £1.2 million in 1997–98, £2.4 million in 1998–99, and £0.8 million in 2000–01 to deal with winter pressures; £2.1 million in 2000–01 and £0.1 million in 2001–02 for developing intermediate care services; £183,000 for heart disease services in 2000–01. For 2001–02, the health authority plans to spend £1.3 million more on heart disease services, including drugs, from the real terms funding increase highlighted.
In addition, my hon. Friend's constituents will benefit from redevelopment of the Roya1 Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan at a cost of £24 million.
Bolton local authority's personal social services standard spending assessment for 2001–02 compared with 1996–97 is set out in the table.
Percentage increase £ million Real Cash 1996–97 37.958 — — 2001–02 50.460 17.7 32.9 In addition to the SSAs referred to, Bolton local authority received additional funding in the form of a number of special and specific grants as set out in the table:
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£000 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 Special Transitional Grant1 2,043 — — — Partnership grant2 — 1,464 1,241 1,674 Prevention grant2 — 109 163 1,674 Carers grant3 — 108 269 373 Children's grant3 — 397 625 1,536 Mental Health Core grant 280 472 562 4816 Training Support Grant 279 301 381 4372
1The special transitional grant ended in 1998–99 2The partnership and prevention grants have been combined in 2001–02 and called the promoting independence grant 3The carers' and children's grants were introduced in 1999–2000 4Indicative allocation