Mr Archie Norman: To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office what plans he has to improve the monitoring of regulatory impact assessments.
Mr Archie Norman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) nursing assistants, (b) nursery nurses, (c) healthcare assistants, (d) clerical and administrative staff, (e) maintenance and works staff, (f) medical secretaries, (g) medical records officers and (h) porters are employed by the NHS.
Mr Archie Norman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many support staff there were for scientific and technical staff in the NHS broken down by (a) trainees, (b) assistants, (c) healthcare assistants, (d) clerical and administrative staff and (e) maintenance and works staff in each of the last seven years; (2) how many support staff there were for NHS ambulance staff, broken down by (a)...
Mr Archie Norman: Does my hon. Friend also accept that this case is a clear illustration of the need for some form of external, objective audit of regulatory impact assessments? It is a classic case of the regulators assessing their own performance, being vague and, in this instance, virtually negligent in so doing.
Mr Archie Norman: What plans he has to develop senior management within the NHS.
Mr Archie Norman: As the Secretary of State knows, I welcome the steps that have been taken—the leadership programme and so on—to develop managers in the NHS, but is he fully aware of the urgency of the situation? Only last month the Commission for Health Improvement called for a new generation of managers in the health service. The average tenure of a chief executive in the health service is reported to...
Mr Archie Norman: Does the Secretary of State accept that the decline in participation in mathematics at A-level in our secondary schools, especially among female students, has serious implications for the future of our engineering, science and technology industries? Does he accept that there is an acute need to look again at the A-level mathematics syllabus, to make it more accessible and appealing to...
Mr Archie Norman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to his answer of 12 February 2004, Official Report, column 1699W, on the Restructuring and Change programme, how many of the 1,400 staff will (a) be made redundant, (b) retire and (c) be lost due to natural wastage.
Mr Archie Norman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answers of 12 February 2004, Official Report, column 1699W, and 23 February 2004, Official Report, column 297W, on the restructuring and change programme, how many of the 1,400 staff will be redeployed or transferred to departmental arm's length bodies or agencies.
Mr Archie Norman: What plans he has to amend the guidelines for siting speed cameras.
Mr Archie Norman: Will the Minister acknowledge that, although several speed cameras in my constituency have a negligible bearing on safety, the guidelines prevent us from getting a speed camera in the worst accident blackspot in the area—on the A21 at Flimwell, where 11 fatalities and nearly 100 accidents have occurred in the past five years—because the police say that the speed limit cannot be reduced...
Mr Archie Norman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether compliance with the European Working Time Directive for doctors in training will become a Commission for Health Improvement performance indicator.
Mr Archie Norman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) how many nurse practitioners he estimates are required to ensure compliance in England with the European working time directive; (2) how many nurses of an appropriate grade work as nurse practitioners to cover doctors in training in the NHS.
Mr Archie Norman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the vacancy rate is for the nursing grades that cover nurse practitioners for each strategic health authority in England.
Mr Archie Norman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he will publish the full details of the 2003–04 NHS performance indicators for (a) acute and specialist trusts, (b) primary care trusts, (c) mental health trusts and (d) ambulance trusts.
Mr Archie Norman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the official definitions are of (a) NHS performance indicators, (b) NHS targets and (c) NHS standards.
Mr Archie Norman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many departmental staff will be transferred to departmental arm's length bodies under the Change Programme.
Mr Archie Norman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which of the European Working Time Directive pilot sites have a full complement of (a) senior specialist nurses and (b) nurse practitioners to cover doctors in training.
Mr Archie Norman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how the funds he announced on 26 December 2003 to improve care for the dying will be allocated; and how much will be made available to hospices.
Mr Archie Norman: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total reduction in numbers of departmental staff will be under the Change Programme.