My right honourable friend the Minister of State for Health has made the following Written Ministerial Statement today.We announced on 7 September (cols 102–103WS) that Monitor (whose statutory name is the Independent Regulator of NHS foundation trusts) would handle the 20 applicants for NHS foundation trust status in wave 1A as two groups, with target dates for authorisation being 1 November 2004 and 1 February 2005.Monitor has revised the target dates to 1 January 2005 (previously 1 November 2004) and 1 April 2005 (previously 1 February 2005).Details of the two groups are as follows:

My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health has made the following Written Ministerial Statement today.The National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit's (NCJDSU) 12th annual report has been published today. The report documents the unit's findings in relation to sporadic, familial and iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJ D), up to 31 December 2003. Copies have been placed in the Library, and the report is also available on the NCJDSU's website at

My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.I have received the annual report of the chief inspector of Criminal Justice Northern Ireland for the financial year 2003–04. The report outlines Criminal Justice Inspection's performance from August 2003, when the chief inspector was appointed, to 31 March 2004.I have arranged for copies of the report to be laid before the House today.