HC Deb 05 March 2004 vol 418 cc1180-2W
Mr. Kaufman

To ask the Secretary of State for Health which schools in the Manchester, Gorton constituency will benefit from the free fruit scheme. [156310]

Miss Melanie Johnson

The following 24 schools in Gorton are receiving fruit under the National School Fruit Scheme:

  • Abbey Hey Infant School
  • Acacias Primary School
  • All Saints Primary School
  • Alma Park Primary School
  • Aspinal Primary School
  • Birchfields Primary School
  • Chapel Street Primary School
  • Crowcroft Park Primary School
  • Gorton Brook School
  • Gorton Mount Primary School
  • Old Hall Drive Primary School
  • Richmond Park School
  • Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Infant School Manchester
  • St Andrew's CofE Primary School
  • St Francis RC Primary School
  • St James' CofE Primary School
  • St John's CofE Primary School
  • St Joseph's RC Primary School Manchester
  • St Kentigern's Catholic Primary School
  • St Luke's CofE Primary School
  • St Mary's RC Primary School Manchester
  • St Richard's RC Primary School
  • Stanley Grove Community Primary School
  • Wilbraham Primary School

Mrs. Brooke:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what the timetable is for extending the National School Fruit Scheme to all regions in England; [157603]

(2) when he will extend the National School Fruit Scheme to the South West Region. [157604]

Miss Melanie Johnson

[holding answer 1 March 2004]: The National School Fruit Scheme will entitle children aged four to six in local education authority maintained infant, primary and special schools to a free

Strategic health authority Scheme (NHS hospital/Trust) Value

(£ million)

Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Royal United Hospital Bath redevelopment 35
Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire United Bristol Hospital for Sick Children 19
Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire Swindon and Marlborough NHS Trust 100
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust 15
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Royston, Buntingford and Bishop Stortford PCT 15
Birmingham and the Black Country Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health 18
Birmingham and the Black Country Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust 13
County Durham and Tees Valley County Durham and Darlington Acute Hospitals NHS Trust—North Durham 61
County Durham and Tees Valley County Durham and Darlington Acute Hospitals NHS Trust—Bishop Auckland 48
County Durham and Tees Valley South Tees Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 122
County Durham and Tees Valley County Durham and Darlington Acute Hospitals—Chester-le-Street 10
Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust 64
Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 87
Cumbria and Lancashire Blackpool Victoria Hospital—Phase 5 27
Cumbria and Lancashire North Cumbria Acute Hospitals (Cumberland Infirmary) 67
Essex Basildon and Thurrock 21
Greater Manchester South Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust 67
Greater Manchester Rochdale Healthcare NHS Trust 24
Greater Manchester Fairfield General—Bury 20
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Southampton General Hospital—Cancer Care Unit 17
Kent and Medway Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust 94
Kent and Medway Swale PCT 14
Kent and Medway Medway DGH Development 51
Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Norfolk and Norwich NHS Trust 158
North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust 22
North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire Harrogate Healthcare NHS Trust 27
North Central London Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust (MH unit) 21
North Central London Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust 54
North East London North East London Mental Health NHS Trust 11
North East London East London and The City Mental Health NHS Trust (Newham) 15
North East London Homerton Hospital Acute Services 16
North West London West London Mental Health NHS Trust 12
North West London Bromley Healthcare NHS Trust 118
North West London West Middlesex University Hospitals NHS Trust 60
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust (Wansbeck) 18
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust (Hexham) 29
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear City Hospitals Sunderland 15
Shropshire and Staffordshire North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust 28
South East London Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Trust (Greenwich) 96
South East London King's Healthcare NHS Trust 76
South East London Queen Mary's Hospital Sidcup 15
South East London Oxleas 11
South West London St. George's Healthcare NHS Trust 46
South West Peninsula Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust (Bodmin) 10
South Yorkshire Central Sheffield University Hospitals Stonegrove) 24
piece of fruit every school day. The scheme is already in operation in the West and East Midlands, London and the North West. Most eligible schools in the North East will join the scheme in March 2004 and the remainder in April. Schools in the remaining four regions will join the scheme during the autumn term 2004.

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