HC Deb 24 May 2002 vol 386 cc685-7W
David Davis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the prescribing budget is of the(a) East Yorkshire Primary Care Trust and (b) West Hull Primary Care Trust. [57594]

Jacqui Smith

The current prescribing budgets allocated to general practice in the East Yorkshire and West Hull Primary Care Trust's is £18.8 million and £20.3 million respectively.

David Davis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the level of financial deficit is for the(a) East Yorkshire Primary Care Trust and (b) the West Hull Primary Care Trust. [57593]

Jacqui Smith

East Yorkshire Primary Care Trust currently have expenditure plans which exceed income by £1 million but are expecting to achieve financial balance by the end of the financial year.

West Hull Primary Care Trust currently have expenditure plans which exceed income by £0.5 million but are expecting to achieve financial balance by the end of the financial year.

Fiona Mactaggart

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list each body which has been given funding to deliver the teaching PCT objectives, together with the sum involved in each case. [58085]

Mr. Hutton

The following primary care trusts (PCTs) have been approved in principle to become teaching PCTs from April 2003:

  • Bournemouth
  • City & Hackney
  • Coventry
  • Eastern Hull and West Hull (joint bid)
  • Greenwich
  • Merseyside (confederation of Bebington & West Wirral, Birkenhead and Wallasey, Central Liverpool, Knowsley, North Liverpool, South Liverpool, South Sefton, Southport & Formby, and St Helens)
  • North Peterborough Confederation (North Peterborough, South Peterborough and Fenland)
  • Plymouth
  • Portsmouth & City
  • South Stoke and North Stoke (joint bid)
  • Walsall
Each of these eleven has been given £20,000 development money in 2002–03.

Fiona Mactaggart

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what resources have been given directly to each teaching PCT for their work as teaching PCTs in 2002–03. [58084]

Mr. Hutton

The following primary care trusts (PCTs) have received funding in 2002–03, as detailed, for their work as teaching PCTs:

Teaching PCT £000s
First wave
Bradford City 516
Salford 516
Sunderland West 516
Second wave
Blackburn & Darwin 300
North Tees 300
Haringey 300
Lincolnshire South West 300

Teaching PCT £000s
Luton 250
Slough 250
Bristol North & South 249
Heart of Birmingham 247

Fiona Mactaggart

To ask the Secretary of State for Health which primary care trusts have been given teaching PCT status. [58083]

Mr. Hutton

The following primary care trusts have been given teaching primary care trust status:

  • First wave, from April 2001
  • Bradford City
  • Salford
  • Sunderland West
  • Second wave, from April 2002
  • Blackburn & Darwen
  • Bristol North and Bristol South & West (joint bid)
  • Haringey
  • Heart of Birmingham
  • Lincolnshire South West
  • Luton
  • North Tees
  • Slough

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