HC Deb 25 May 2004 vol 421 cc1593-4W
Bob Spink

To 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]

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 Johnson

It 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.

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