Written Statements

Thursday 24 June 2004

Northern Ireland Strategic Investment Board: Report And Accounts 2003–04

My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has made the following Ministerial Statement:Today I have placed in the Libraries of the House copies of the report and accounts 2003–04 of the Strategic Investment Board for Northern Ireland.

Army Base Repair Organisation: Key Targets 2004–05

My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Defence (Mr Adam Ingram) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.The following key targets have been set for the Army Base Repair Organisation for financial year 2004–05.

Key Target	Details	Target
KT 1—Financial Performance—Return on Capital Employed (ROCE).	The measurement of ABRO's ROCE.	To achieve a return, averaged over the period 1 April 2004 to 31 March 2005, of at least 3.5 per cent.
KT2—Delivery Performance.	The measurement of revenue projection.	To complete delivery of 100 per cent of the planned revenue projection (£150 million) in FY 2004–05, and in each of the next three years.
KT3—Business Systems	The measurement of the introduction and operation of TABS and the imperative to detach from the current supply system.	To introduce and have operational the ABRO Business System (TABS) and to have detached from the ESPPA supply system by 31 March 2005.
KT4—Efficiency	The measurement of the reduction in price of ABRO output.	To reduce the average equipment repair price, across the whole programme, by 20 per cent against the 2002–03 baseline.
KT5—Winning Work	The measurement of ABRO winning work.	To maintain a closing order book of at least £80 million for FY 2004–05, and to maintain this level for the next three years.

Elder Abuse

My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Community (Dr Stephen Ladyman) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement today.The Government's response to the Health Committee's Second Report of Session 2003–04 on elder abuse, Cm 6270, has been published today. Copies have been placed in the Library.

Nhs Continuing Care

My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Community (Dr Stephen Ladyman) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement today.I regret that the information I provided in my Written Statement of 22 June contained an error in line 23 of the table, the entry for South Yorkshire Strategic Health Authority. Where it read 138 cases eligible for recompense, it should have said 69; and where it read 232 investigations completed, it should have said 163. The corrected data are in the table.

SHA Name	Number of cases eligible of recompense	Investigations completed	Investigations under way
Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire SHA	0	281	370
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire SHA	34	102	110
Essex SHA	10	146	26
North West London SHA	10	181	191
North Central London SHA	8	64	61
North East London SHA	0	169	11
South East London SHA	60	183	90
South West London SHA	62	194	21
Northumberland, Tyne & Wear SHA	27	126	172
County Durham and Tees Valley SHA	10	48	178
North & East Yorkshire & Lincs SHA	29	266	93
West Yorkshire SHA	25	130	219
Cumbria and Lancashire SHA	15	154	186
Greater Manchester SHA	5	102	240
Cheshire & Merseyside SHA	107	774	422
Thames Valley SHA	4	181	202
Hampshire and Isle of Wight SHA	30	386	121
Kent and Medway SHA	24	186	44
Surrey and Sussex SHA	5	15	860
Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire SHA	43	612	349

SHA Name	Number of cases eligible for recompense	Investigations completed	Investigations under way
South West Peninsula SHA	25	433	120
Dorset and Somerset SHA	14	448	467
South Yorkshire SHA	69	163	78
Trent SHA	0	236	79
Leics, Northants and Rutland SHA	29	202	22

SHA Name	Number of cases eligible for recompense	Investigations completed	Investigations under way
Shropshire and Staffordshire SHA	38	412	19
Birmingham and the Black Country SHA	10	213	73
West Midlands South SHA	8	237	187
Total—England	770	6,713	5,011

Written Statements

Volume 662: debated on Thursday 24 June 2004