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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, for what reasons the regional networks of microbiology laboratories were disbanded.

Asked by

Tim Loughton (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 December 2003

Reference

415 c1133W; 144371

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many experiments on animals were carried out in UK laboratories in 2002-03; what action he is taking to encourage alternative methods of experimentation; and if he will make a statement. - Inc figures and ref to Animals (Scientific Procedures)...

Asked by

Roy Beggs (Ulster Unionist Party)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

4 December 2003

For answer on

15 December 2003

Answered on

15 December 2003

Mr. Beggs: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many experiments on animals were carried out in UK laboratories in 2002-03; what action he is taking to encourage alternative methods of experimentation; and if he will make a statement. [143178] Caroline Flint: For the year 2002, the most recent year for which complete annual statistics are available and published, 2,752,278 scientific procedures were carried out on animals in the UK. Mice, rats and other rodents, along with fish and birds, were used in some 96 per cent. of the total. The use of animals in regulated procedures is prohibited by the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 in cases where a scientifically valid non-animal alternative is available. The Act also requires that, where replacement of animals is not possible, the number used in any licensed project must be reduced to the minimum, and the procedures must be refined to ensure that no unnecessary suffering is caused. This approach--of replacing, reducing and refining--is known as application of the 3Rs. Most work on the 3Rs is neither done by Government nor with Government money, as industry spends many millions of pounds each year on the search for and development of alternatives. Nonetheless, every year the Home Office makes available to the Animal Procedures Committee a budget for research aimed at developing or promoting the use of the 3Rs. Details of completed research projects are published in the annual report of the Animal Procedures Committee, which is available from The Stationery Office. The amount made available to the Committee for 2003-04 for this specific purpose is £280,000. This is not the only money spent by the Government on the development of the 3Rs, as other Departments and public funding bodies are also active in this area. Indeed, it is estimated that the total spent across Government is in the region of £2 million to £10 million each year. To take this further on an international level, we continue to support the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods (ECVAM) through contributions to the European Union, and last year we co-sponsored the 4th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences. The Government supports and encourages the development and promotion of the 3Rs in a number of other ways. For example, we are currently exploring the recommendation by the House of Lords Select Committee on Animals in Scientific Procedures, which reported in July 2002, that there should be a United Kingdom centre for research into the 3Rs. This is being considered by the Inter-Departmental Group on the 3Rs, led by the Home Office. The Inter-Departmental Group is also reviewing the effectiveness of the Inter-Departmental Data Sharing Concordat announced in August 2000, which commits United Kingdom regulatory authorities to help resolve legal and other obstacles to data sharing between clients, in order to reduce animal testing. In the longer term, we believe that further significant reduction in animal use will, and must, continue to rely largely on the scientific community's own efforts to develop, validate and adopt more advanced methods based on the 3Rs. This is not an area where quick gains can be expected, but any lack of progress in research into alternatives is more often due to the limitations of science, rather than to inadequate funding.

Date

15 December 2003

Reference

143178; 415 c633-4W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will list by county those dental laboratories which have registered with his Department under the Medical Devices Regulations.

Asked by

Richard Ottaway (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 December 2003

Reference

415 c594W; 142529

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the impact of the level of funding to laboratories for the examination of bovine samples for M. bovis on the timescale for the testing of samples. - Inc figures.

Asked by

Owen Paterson (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 December 2003

Reference

142338; 415 c541W

House

House of Commons

McIntosh of Haringey, Lord

How many laboratories in the United Kingdom are accredited to analyse anti-doping tests. [HL 172].

Asked by

Lord Moynihan (Conservative)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

9 December 2003

Reference

HL 172; 655 c59WA

House

House of Lords

Dept of Health

Asked by

Paul Burstow (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

8 December 2003

Reference

142244; 415 c315-6W

House

House of Commons

Lords debate on motion to take note of the report of the Science and Technology Committee on Fighting Infection (HL 138 2002/03)

Lords debate on motion to take note of the report of the Science and Technology Committee on Fighting Infection (HL 138 2002/03). Agreed to on question.

Lead member

Lord Soulsby of Swaffham Prior

Answering member

Lord Skelmersdale

Department

Department of Health; Science and Technology Committee (HL)

Type

Debates on select committee reports

Date

8 December 2003

Reference

655 c592-622

House

House of Lords

Deposited Paper HINF 2003/2307

Letter dated 25.11.2003 from Melanie Johnson MP to Paul Burstow MP regarding National Health Service laboratories. DH. 2003.

Deposited by

Department of Health

Type

Deposited papers

Date

27 November 2003

Reference

HINF 2003/2307

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what percentage of UK funds directed towards the CERN project is being treated as capital against resource. - Inc tables.

Asked by

Richard Page (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

12 November 2003

For answer on

20 November 2003

Answered on

20 November 2003

Mr. Page: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what percentage of UK funds directed towards the CERN project is being treated as capital against resource. [139061] Ms Hewitt: At this point in time, the UK subscription to CERN is not formally divided into capital and resource and is currently regarded as resource expenditure. This is an area of discussion between HM Treasury, the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council and my department. It should be noted that CERN is currently in the middle of a 12 year, è3.2 billion project to construct the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which will be the world's most powerful particle accelerator. Its expected commissioning date is April 2007. Whilst capital spend at CERN will fall to almost zero in 2007 when the LHC machine is completed, CERN have negotiated a loan to facilitate the expenditure profile with a repayment schedule to 2011. This will mean that a proportion of the UK subscription will be used for capital repayment to 2011. In parallel, as the operations and exploitation phase begins, an increasing fraction of the UK subscription will be devoted to meeting the associated operating costs. The following table of capital expenditure is estimated by taking the UK's share of CERN's capital spending plans. UK CERN subscription and UK share of CERN's capital expenditure plans £ million1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 2000-1 2001-2 2002-3 2003-4 2004-5 2005-6 2006-7 2007-8 UK CERN subscription 69.1 66.2 68.9 71.5 71.4 72.1 72.1 72.1 UK share of CERN capital 17.3 48.3 50.3 50.8 48.6 43.3 21.6 7.2 spend plans (percentage) 25 73 73 71 68 60 30 10 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1The figures are in pounds and UK financial years, but the subscription is actually set in Swiss Francs and calendar years, and also varies according to the UK's net national income in comparison to that of other Member States. The figures for 2003-4 and onwards are latest estimates. In addition, the UK is supporting the construction and operation of a number of experiments at CERN as part of its domestic particle physics budget. These consist of large pieces of capital equipment for CERN but the expenditure is counted as resource for HM Treasury purposes. The LHC capital element of this funding has been estimated by identifying the contributions towards the detectors and similar items and is shown in the following table: UK domestic expenditure on CERN experiments (£million) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 2000-1 2001-2 2002-3 2003-4 2004-5 2005-6 2006-7 2007-8 UK domestic expenditure on 13.3 17.4 23.4 27.0 27.8 24.2 23.7 20.6 CERN instruments LHC Capital element 11.2 14.8 19.0 19.1 16.8 12.0 8.0 2.2 (percentage) 84 85 81 71 60 50 34 10 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1The figures are in pounds and UK financial years, but the subscription is actually set in Swiss Francs and calendar years, and also varies according to the UK's net national income in comparison to that of other Member States. The figures for 2003-4 and onwards are latest estimates.

Date

20 November 2003

Reference

139061; 413 c1420W;413 c1416W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, what the resource amount is of the funds that have been directed towards the CERN project. - Inc tables.

Asked by

Richard Page (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

12 November 2003

For answer on

20 November 2003

Answered on

20 November 2003

Mr. Page: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the resource amount is of the funds that have been directed towards the CERN project. [139062] Ms Hewitt: CERN is the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, an international organisation established in 1954 in Geneva. The UK is a founder member. The total resource allocated to the UK subscription to CERN over the previous three years and the projected figures for 2003-4 to 2007-08 are shown below1. Total resource for UK subscription to CERN _________________________________________________________________________________________________. £ million 1999-00 48.8 2000-1 69.1 2001-2 66.2 2002-3 68.9 2003-4 71.5 2004-5 71.4 2005-6 72.1 2006-7 72.1 2007-8 72.1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. In addition, the UK is supporting the construction and operation of a number of experiments at CERN as part of its domestic particle physics budget. The total resource allocated to this over the previous five years and the projected figures for 2003-4 to 2005-06 are shown below. UK domestic expenditure on construction and operation of CERN experiment £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1997-8 1998-9 1999-00 2000-1 2001-2 2002-3 2003-4 2004-5 2005-6 LHC 0 8.3 10.1 11.2 16.8 23 26.7 27.6 24.0 Other 3.5 3.2 2.4 2.2 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.2 Total: 3.5 11.6 12.6 13.3 17.4 23.4 27.0 27.8 24.2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 The figures are in pounds and UK financial years, but the subscription is actually set in Swiss Francs and calendar years, and also varies according to the UK's net national income in comparison to that of other Member States. The figures for 2003-4 and onwards are latest, estimates.

Date

20 November 2003

Reference

139062; 413 c1419-20W;413 c1415-8W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prosecutions have been brought under Regulation 14(a)(s) of the Medical Devices Regulations 1994 against dental laboratories which have not registered in accordance with the regulations since they came into force; what steps his Department is taking to identify those dental...

Asked by

Richard Ottaway (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

11 November 2003

Reference

135526; 413 c263W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans his Department has to outsource custom-made dental devices to (a) Turkey, (b) Hungary, (c) China and (d) the Philippines.

Asked by

Lord Field of Birkenhead (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

5 November 2003

Reference

133244; 412 c685W

House

House of Commons

Home Office

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which police forces in England and Wales contract work to the Forensic Science Laboratory in Chorley; how many staff are employed at the Chorley site; and what representations he has received in response to his statement of 17th July, Official...

Asked by

Lindsay Hoyle (Labour)

Answering body

Home Office

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

15 October 2003

Reference

131497; 411 c256W;411 c260W

House

House of Commons

Dept for International Development

To ask the Minister of State, Department for International Development, pursuant to his Answer of 9th June, Official Report, 406 c614W, whether the Department has made an assessment of (a) whether there are sufficient numbers of trained public health laboratory staff in Iraq and (b) whether British military personnel can...

Asked by

Barry Gardiner (Labour)

Answering body

Department for International Development

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 October 2003

Reference

129806; 410 c1010W;410 c1008W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what supporting inspection arrangements are in place for microbiology laboratories.

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 October 2003

Reference

130080; 410 c1321-2W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many public analysts' laboratories there were in England and Wales checking foodstuffs in 1996; and how many there are in 2003.

Asked by

David Kidney (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 October 2003

Reference

130961; 410 c1343W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Health

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what systems are in place to ensure that the former Public Health Laboratory Service microbiology laboratories (a) maintain their standards of practice under NHS trusts and (b) continue to report national data statistics to central government; what safeguards are in place to...

Asked by

Lord Grayling (Conservative)

Answering body

Department of Health

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

6 October 2003

Reference

410 c1321W; 130077;130078;130079

House

House of Commons

Bach, Lord

Whether components of British manufacture from the two vehicles suspected of being involved in the production of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq could have had dual use capability. [HL 4335].

Asked by

Lord Redesdale (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 September 2003

Reference

HL 4335; 652 c195WA

House

House of Lords

Bach, Lord

Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Bach on 8 September 2003, 652 c44WA, which foreign government passed on information about the two vehicles suspected of being involved in the production of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that caused the Government to withhold details under exemption 1c of...

Asked by

Lord Redesdale (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 September 2003

Reference

HL 4337; 652 c195WA

House

House of Lords

Sainsbury of Turville, Lord

Whether any of the components of British manufacture from the two vehicles suspected of the production of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq were bought using Export Credits Guarantee Department credits; and whether such credits were repaid by the Iraqi Government. [HL 4336].

Asked by

Lord Redesdale (Liberal Democrat)

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

18 September 2003

Reference

HL 4336; 652 c196WA

House

House of Lords

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