Refurbishment

HC Deb 31 January 2002 vol 379 cc551-2W

Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what his estimate is of the cost of buildings refurbishment carried out by his Department in each of the last four years. [27962]

Ms Blears

The estimate of the cost of buildings refurbishment carried out by the Department, its executive agencies and executive non-departmental public bodies in each of the past four complete financial years is shown in the table.

	£000
1997–98	2,290
1998–99	2,023

	Emergency calls resulting in an emergency response arriving at the scene of the incident1
Ambulance NHS Trust	Thousand	Rate per thousand population
England	3,558	71
Northern and Yorkshire	476	68
West Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance NHS Trust	172	81
Tees, East and North Yorkshire Ambulance NHS Trust	132	47
Cumbria Ambulance NHS Trust	24	38
North East Ambulance NHS Trust	148	105
Trent	334	69
South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance NHS Trust	80	61
Lincolnshire Ambulance NHS Trust	59	93
East Midlands Ambulance NHS Trust	195	67
Eastern	328	60
Essex Ambulance NHS Trust	115	70
East Anglian Ambulance NHS Trust	114	52
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Ambulance NHS Trust	99	61
London	700	95
London Ambulance NHS Trust	700	95
South East	523	60
Royal Berkshire Ambulance NHS Trust	47	58
Hampshire Ambulance NHS Trust	83	50
Isle of Wight Ambulance Service (NHS Trust)2	8	59
Kent Ambulance NHS Trust	97	61
Oxfordshire Ambulance NHS Trust	27	43
Surrey Ambulance NHS Trust	78	72
Sussex Ambulance NHS Trust	115	76
The Two Shires Ambulance NHS Trust	68	52
South West	291	59
Avon Ambulance NHS Trust	60	59
Dorset Ambulance NHS Trust	54	77
Gloucestershire Ambulance NHS Trust	27	48
West Country Ambulance NHS Trust	122	58
Wiltshire Ambulance NHS Trust	29	47
West Midlands	365	68
Hereford and Worcester Ambulance NHS Trust	34	48
Shropshire Ambulance Service (NHS Trust)2	22	50
Staffordshire Ambulance NHS Trust	64	61
Warwickshire Ambulance NHS Trust	27	34
West Midlands Metropolitan Ambulance NHS Trust	218	94
North-west	540	86
Lancashire Ambulance NHS Trust	112	87

	£000
1999–2000	5,778
2000–01	5,002

This does not include refurbishment work carried out within the national health service nor the cost of fitting out of any new properties prior to occupation.