HC Deb 18 September 2003 vol 410 cc978-9W
Mr. Burstow

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the Public Health Laboratory Service laboratories that(a) will transfer and (b) have transferred to NHS trusts, broken down by (i) trust, (ii) date of transfer, (iii) current running cost and (iv) staffing complement. [124310]

Miss Melanie Johnson

The running costs and staffing numbers for the laboratories transferred to the national health service are shown in the following table. All the laboratory transfers were completed on or before 1 April 2003.

Laboratory NHS Trust 2002–03 budget (£) Staff complement (WTE)1
Coventry University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust 2,145,805 49.78
Dorchester West Dorset General Hospital NHS Trust 1,134,621 22.99
Exeter Royal Devon and Exeter Healthcare NHS Trust 1,979,930 49.29
Gloucester Gloucester Hospitals NHS Trust 1,465,721 45.71
Hereford Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust 975,290 23.73
Hull Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust 2,366,917 61.16
Ipswich Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust 1,279,748 34.75
Leicester University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust 2,812,959 68.30
Lincoln Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospital NHS Trust 998,295 23.59
Liverpool Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust 1,934,072 54.38
Luton Luton and Dunstable NHS Trust 1,229,500 28.89
Middlesbrough South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust 1,372,303 36.73
Norwich Norfolk and Norwich University NHS Trust 2,055,942 52.34
Nottingham Nottingham University NHS Trust 3,105,899 80.38
Peterborough Peterborough Hospitals NHS Trust 944,533 25.00
Plymouth Plymouth NHS Trust 2,125,294 44.17
Poole Poole Hospital NHS Trust 2,329,965 52.67
Portsmouth Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust 1,984,922 47.01
Preston Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 2,426,407 72.21
Reading Royal Berkshire and Battle NHS Trust 1,644,385 35.94
Salisbury Salisbury Healthcare NHS Trust 842,955 17.32
Sheffield Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 2,354,821 58.60
Shrewsbury Royal Shrewsbury Hospital NHS Trust 1,775,981 36.47
Stoke North Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust 1,756,098 39.34
Taunton Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust 1,474,244 32.28
Truro Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust 2,182,102 44.80

1 Whole-time equivalent