To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the Public Health Laboratory Service laboratories that (a) will transfer and (b) have transferred to NHS trusts, broken down by (i) trust, (ii) date of transfer, (iii) current running cost and (iv) staffing complement. [124310]
The running costs and staffing numbers for the laboratories transferred to the national health service are shown in the following table. All the laboratory transfers were completed on or before 1 April 2003.
Laboratory
| NHS Trust
| 2002–03 budget (£)
| Staff complement (WTE) 1
|
| Coventry | University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust | 2,145,805 | 49.78 |
| Dorchester | West Dorset General Hospital NHS Trust | 1,134,621 | 22.99 |
| Exeter | Royal Devon and Exeter Healthcare NHS Trust | 1,979,930 | 49.29 |
| Gloucester | Gloucester Hospitals NHS Trust | 1,465,721 | 45.71 |
| Hereford | Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust | 975,290 | 23.73 |
| Hull | Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust | 2,366,917 | 61.16 |
| Ipswich | Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust | 1,279,748 | 34.75 |
| Leicester | University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust | 2,812,959 | 68.30 |
| Lincoln | Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospital NHS Trust | 998,295 | 23.59 |
| Liverpool | Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust | 1,934,072 | 54.38 |
| Luton | Luton and Dunstable NHS Trust | 1,229,500 | 28.89 |
| Middlesbrough | South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust | 1,372,303 | 36.73 |
| Norwich | Norfolk and Norwich University NHS Trust | 2,055,942 | 52.34 |
| Nottingham | Nottingham University NHS Trust | 3,105,899 | 80.38 |
| Peterborough | Peterborough Hospitals NHS Trust | 944,533 | 25.00 |
| Plymouth | Plymouth NHS Trust | 2,125,294 | 44.17 |
| Poole | Poole Hospital NHS Trust | 2,329,965 | 52.67 |
| Portsmouth | Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust | 1,984,922 | 47.01 |
| Preston | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | 2,426,407 | 72.21 |
| Reading | Royal Berkshire and Battle NHS Trust | 1,644,385 | 35.94 |
| Salisbury | Salisbury Healthcare NHS Trust | 842,955 | 17.32 |
| Sheffield | Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | 2,354,821 | 58.60 |
| Shrewsbury | Royal Shrewsbury Hospital NHS Trust | 1,775,981 | 36.47 |
| Stoke | North Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust | 1,756,098 | 39.34 |
| Taunton | Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust | 1,474,244 | 32.28 |
| Truro | Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust | 2,182,102 | 44.80 |
1 Whole-time equivalent