Written question asked by Patsy Calton (Liberal Democrat) on Friday, 5 July 2002, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 23 July 2002. It was answered by Baroness Smith of Malvern (Labour) on Tuesday, 23 July 2002 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Dept of Health

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 18th March, Official Report, column 176W, on care funding, what his definition is of hotspot councils; and what the names are of the hotspot councils as referred to in Annexe B. - Inc reef to 18 March 2002, 382 c176W. (Holding answer 11 July 2002).

Answer: Mrs. Calton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the answer of 18 March 2002, Official Report, column 176W, on care funding, what his definition is of hotspot councils; and what the names are of the hotspot councils as referred to in Annexe B. [68748] Jacqui Smith: [holding answer 11 July 2002]: I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave on 18 March 2002, Official Report, column 176W, and the information provided in Annexe B. `Hotspot' councils were those 55 selected to receive additional funding. The 55 councils are as follows: Barking and Dagenham Barnet Bath and North East Somerset Birmingham Bracknell Forest Brighton and Hove Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cumbria Dudley East Sussex Enfield Essex Gloucestershire Hackney Halton Hampshire Haringey Havering Hertfordshire Hillingdon Isle of Wight Kent Knowsley Leeds Medway Towns Milton Keynes North Somerset Northamptonshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Richmond-upon-Thames Sheffield Slough South Gloucestershire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St. Helens Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Sutton Swindon Thurrock Waltham Forest Warwickshire West Berkshire West Sussex Wiltshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham York.

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