To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects his Department's target for one qualified school nurse to be allocated to each secondary school and its cluster of primary schools to be met. (313915)

Working in partnership across heath and education we have made good progress in expanding the qualified school nursing workforce.

Linking primary schools to their nearest secondary school gives about 3,000 clusters in England. The 2008 workforce census showed there were 3,643 (headcount) qualified nurses working in school health services, an increase of 1,234 or 51 per cent. since 2004. Of these, there were 1,447 (headcount) nurses with the post registration school nurse qualification. This is an increase of 591 or 69 per cent. since 2004.

Workforce data for 2009 will be available on 25 March when the NHS Information Centre publishes the 2009 Workforce Census.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the ratio of full-time equivalent school nurses to pupils was in (a) North Cornwall constituency and (b) Cornwall in each year since 2004. (313916)

The information requested is not held centrally.

The Department does not hold data on the ratio of school nurses to pupils. However, in the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Primary Care Trust (PCT), the number of full time equivalent qualified nursing staff in the school nursing area of work as at 30 September for each specified year, is given in the following table.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many qualified school nurses there were in (a) North Cornwall constituency and (b) Cornwall in each year since 2004. (313917)

The information is not held in the format requested.

In the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Primary Care Trust (PCT), the number of qualified nursing staff in the school nursing area of work, as at 30 September for each specified year, is given in the following table.