§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people are employed by the Department under the new deal for young people; and at what cost to public funds. [21274]
§ Ms BlearsThe Department's most recent statistics on new deal staff covered the period 2 July to 1 October. During this period four staff were employed by the Department and its agencies under the new deal for young people at an annual salary cost of £41,300. This excludes any training and development that may have been needed.626W over (a) one year and (b) three months for an operation in (i) 1997, (ii) 1998, (iii) 1999, (iv) 2000 and (v) 2001; and what percentage each figure constituted of the number of operations in each year. [20382]
§ Ms Blears[holding answer 4 December 2001]Information on waiting times for all operations (in-patient, day case and out-patients) is not collected centrally. The table shows information on in-patient waiting lists for patients in the Isle of Wight health authority area for each quarter between March 1997 and March 2001 and the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and South East Hampshire health authority area for quarters ending June and September 2001.
A further four new deal recruits came into the Department through generalist entry routes, costs for these cannot be identified.