§ Mrs. CaltonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the answer of 18 March 2002,Official Report, column 176W, on care funding, what his definition is of hotspot councils; and what the names are of the hotspot councils as referred to in Annexe B. [68748]
§ Jacqui Smith[holding answer 11 July 2002]I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave on 18 March 2002,Official Report, column 176W, and the information 1099W provided in Annexe B. 'Hotspot' councils were those 55 Food Safety selected to receive additional funding. The 55 councils are as follows:
- Barking and Dagenham
- Barnet
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Birmingham
- Bracknell Forest
- Brighton and Hove Bristol
- Bromley
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Cumbria
- Dudley
- East Sussex
- Enfield
- Essex
- Gloucestershire
- Hackney
- Halton
- Hampshire
- Haringey
- Havering
- Hertfordshire
- Hillingdon
- Isle of Wight
- Kent
- Knowsley
- Leeds
- Medway Towns
- Milton Keynes
- North Somerset
- Northamptonshire
- Peterborough
- Portsmouth
- Reading
- Richmond-upon-Thames
- Sheffield
- Slough
- South Gloucestershire
- Southampton
- Southend-on-Sea
- St. Helens
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- Sutton
- Swindon
- Thurrock
- Waltham Forest
- Warwickshire
- West Berkshire
- West Sussex
- Wiltshire
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Wokingham
- York.