To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent by the Bedfordshire primary care trust and its predecessors to ensure that clinical professionals other than general practitioners receive appropriate training to carry out semi-specialist services at primary care level in each year since 1997; and if she will make a statement. (122831)

The information requested is not held centrally. It is for the primary care trusts in discussion with local general practitioners (GPs) to decide how many GPs with a specialist interest are required and how to fund any necessary training.