§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how the money for sterilisation facilities announced in January 2001 was spent. [119718]
§ Mr. HuttonThis money has funded a range of projects covering the purchase of new equipment for cleaning and sterilising instruments, building work to improve segregation and purchase of surgical instruments to enable centralisation of services.
Funding has also enabled the production of revised guidance on infection control in dentistry and the development of sustainable solutions for the redevelopment of services for groups of national health service trusts.