§ Bob SpinkTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will make it his policy to collect statistics on the number of patients treated each year in the NHS for injuries involving air weapons; [174829]
(2) if he will make a statement on the (a) age profile of patients treated in hospital for injuries resulting from air guns, (b) type of injuries suffered and (c) the times of year when these injuries are most frequently suffered. [172445]
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Disposition of 2004–05 Hospital and Community Health Services Capital Resources—Extract from Figure 4.2 of the Department of Health Departmental Report 2004 £ million HCHS capital available for allocation to NHS trusts and PCTs 3,331 To be allocated as follows: Central budgets 82 Direct allocations to strategic health authorities, NHS trusts and primary care trusts SHA strategic capital 763 Trust and PCT operational capital 928 Access fund 100 Total direct allocations for local prioritisation 1,791 Programme capital budgets Delivery of ICT strategy 700 Junior doctors' working hours 2 SIFT—Medical and dental undergraduate support 35 Improving the provision of decontamination services in the NHS 13 Modernising the hospital manufacture of medicines 24 Nursing home care strategy 16 Walk-in centres 10 Primary care facilities—including NHS LIFT 110 Audiology 32 Dangerous severe personality disorder (DSPD) 20 Other mental health, including TILT security, CAHMS, long-term low secure and womens 40 Renal 9 Diabetes 10 Coronary heart disease 140 Cancer equipment 95
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonIt would be disproportionately costly to collect statistics on national health service patients treated for injuries specifically involving air weapons and the Department has no plans to do so.