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Dept of Health

Answer

Caroline Flint: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will set out, with statistical information relating as directly as possible to Don Valley constituency, the effects on Doncaster of his Department's policies and actions since 2 May 1997. [153520] Yvette Cooper: Detailed information on the impact of Department of Health policies nationally is set out in the Department of Health Annual Reports. A copy of the most recent report "Department of Health--Government Expenditure Plans 2000/01" is available in the Library and on the Department of Health website at www.doh.gov.uk/dhreport. The impact of policies is not examined by constituency and statistics collected centrally by the Department are not collected on a constituency basis. My hon. Friend's constituency falls within the geographical area covered by Doncaster health authority and Doncaster metropolitan borough council (MBC) social services. Increases in allocations between 1996-97 and 2001-02 for Doncaster health authority are shown in the table. Increases in allocations between 1996-97 and 2001-02 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Increase £ million (cash) 62.7 £ million (real terms) 40.5 Percentage (cash) 39.51 Percentage (real terms) 23.61 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: Increases for 1999-2000 onwards are for unified allocations which cover hospital and community health services, prescribing and discretionary family health services. Those for previous years cover hospital and community health services only. Doncaster health authority has also received additional funding for certain policies. This includes: £196,000 for accident and emergency modernisation between 1997-98 and 2000-01; A further £836,000 has been invested in an existing scheme to modernise the layout of the accident and emergency at Doncaster Royal Infirmary; £47,000, £130,000, £213,000 and £139,000 for improving cancer services (breast, colorectal, lung and cancer outpatients) in 1997-98, 1998-99, 1999-2000 and 2000-01 respectively; £5.004 million to reduce waiting lists and times between 1997-98 and 2000-01; £1.294 million to expand critical care services in 2000-01; £250,000 to deal with winter pressures and delayed discharges in 2000-01; £131,000 for heart disease services between 1997-98 and 2000-01; and £115,400 invested in dentistry between 1997-98 and 2000-01. Doncaster MBC's personal social services standard spending assessment (SSA) for 2001-02 compared with 1996-97 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Percentage increase £ million Real Cash 1996-97 40.283 -- -- 2001-02 52.524 15.5 30.4 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. In addition to the SSAs referred to, Doncaster MBC received additional funding in the form of a number of special and specific grants as set out in the table. £000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-01 2001-02 Special Transitional 2,159 -- -- -- Grant{1} Partnership grant{2} -- 1,528 1,300 | 1,768 Prevention grant{2} -- 112 168 | Carers grant{3} -- 113 281 390 Children's grant{3} -- 396 618 1,566 Mental Health Core Grant 300 337 614 {4}855 Training Support Grant 258 240 302 {4}303 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} The special transitional grant ended in 1998-99 {2} The partnership and prevention grants have been combined in 2001-02 and called the promoting independence grant {3} The carers' and children's grants were introduced in 1999-2000 {4} Indicative allocation

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

153520; 366 c596-8W;366 c597-8W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Government departments Department of Health Doncaster

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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