To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer to the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton) of 24 May, Official Report, column 444, if she will list the names and locations of the 30 projects designed to improve access to primary health care for homeless people; what are the current and projected levels of funding her Department is committing to each of these projects; and what assessment has been made of the level of homelessness in the areas covered.

There are 29 distinct primary health care projects for homeless people, with one, in Sheffield, having within it a separately identified and separately costed scheme for travellers. The projects have developed in three phases. The third phase was initiated in December 1991 when my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced that £3 million was being made available, over three years, to support new and existing projects. Not all the projects approved in the third phase, which started in 1992–93, were able to start during the financial year; others began towards the end of the year and received only a small amount of funding. The level of funding for most projects in 1993–94 is still under discussion. Information on funding in 1992–93 and 1993–94, where agreed, is shown in the table.When regional health authorities were invited to bid for funding, they were asked to review the existing services for homeless people in their areas, to distinguish between different types of homeless people —for example, people sleeping rough in shelters and hostels and families in bed-and-breakfast accommodation—to review existing