HC Deb 02 May 2002 vol 384 cc1004-5W
Dr. Evan Harris

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many primary care premises have been improved in(a) England and (b) each health authority since March 1999. [45718]

Mr. Hutton

[holding answer 25 March 2002]: The number of improvements to premises used by General Practitioners in England and by health authority from April 1999 to December 2001 are shown in the table.

The table includes provisional data for 2001–02.

Health authority improvements
Bradford 13
County Durham and Darlington 12
East Riding and Hull 11
Gateshead and South Tyneside 1
Leeds 30
Newcastle and North Tyneside 23
North Cumbria 21
Northumberland 21
Sunderland 6
Tees 32
Wakefield 13
North Yorkshire 13
Calderdale and Kirklees 16
Barnsley 5
North Derbyshire 11
Southern Derbyshire 18
Doncaster 3
Leicestershire 25
Lincolnshire 21
North Nottinghamshire 6
Nottingham 11
Rotherham 4
Sheffield 6
South Humber 10
Birmingham 31
Coventry 5
Dudley 12
Herefordshire 0

Health authority improvements
Sandwell 2
Shropshire 9
Solihull 2
North Staffordshire 16
South Staffordshire 6
Walsall 9
Warwickshire 13
Wolverhampton 39
Worcestershire 1
South Lancashire 10
Liverpool 13
Manchester 7
Morecambe Bay 7
St. Helens and Knowsley 29
Salford and Trafford 16
Sefton 33
Stockport 1
West Pennine 13
Bury and Rochdale 10
North Cheshire 24
South Cheshire 14
East Lancashire 10
North West Lancashire 6
Wigan and Bolton 15
Wirral 28
Bedfordshire 8
North Essex 6
South Essex 32
Suffolk 4
Cambridgeshire 25
Norfolk 20
Hertfordshire 12
Hillingdon 10
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 23
Redbridge and Waltham Forest 7
Croydon 13
Kingston and Richmond 2
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 3
Merton, Sutton and Wands worth 13
Barking and Havering 27
Brent and Harrow 35
Camden and Islington 7
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 13
East London and City 48
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey 6
Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich 12
Berkshire 27
Buckinghamshire 9
East Kent 31
West Kent 12
East Surrey 13
West Surrey 41
East Sussex, Brighton and Hove 15
West Sussex 61
Northamptonshire 20
Oxfordshire 20
North and Mid Hampshire 36
Southampton and SW Hampshire 48
Isle of Wight, Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 21
Somerset 0
South and West Devon 39
Wiltshire 8
Avon 10
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 0
Dorset 11
North and East Devon 3
Gloucestershire 2
England 1,452