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Health Services: Houghton-le-Spring

Volume 504: debated on Wednesday 27 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding his Department has allocated for (a) the treatment of heart disease and (b) cancer care in Houghton and Washington East constituency in the last five years. (313067)

The information requested is not collected centrally. Information on programme budgeting estimated expenditure of cancer and tumours and problems of circulation in the Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust (PCT) is shown in the following tables:

Sunderland Teaching PCT—programme budgeting estimated expenditure on own population on cancer and tumours

Financial year

Estimated expenditure on own population on cancer care (£000)

2004-05

19,730

2005-06

20,000

2006-07

23,126

2007-08

27,665

2008-09

34,886

Sunderland Teaching PCT—programme budgeting estimated expenditure on own population on problems of circulation category and subcategories

(£000)

Financial year

Problems of circulation

Coronary heart disease

Cerebrovascular disease

Problems of rhythm

Problems of circulation (other)

2004-05

37,608

2005-06

38,782

2006-07

37,614

12,884

5,462

2,438

16,830

2007-08

43,542

19,965

2,482

3,749

17,346

2008-09

43,224

16,352

5,796

2,577

18,499

Notes:

1. The programme budgeting data collection is complex, therefore expenditure figures are best estimates rather than precise measurements. Year on year comparisons are not straightforward due to annual refinements to the data collection methodology and changes to underlying data sources.

2. Subcategory level data were collected for the first time in 2006-07 and tend to be less robust than main category data as they are smaller categories and are therefore subject to greater variation.

3. Figures include expenditure across all sectors. Disease specific expenditure do not include expenditure on prevention or general practitioner expenditure.

Source:

Annual PCT programme budgeting financial returns