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Written Parliamentary Question: 18th November 2005

NHS Finances
Q: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of NHS bodies are insolvent. (John Hemming)

A: No NHS organisations are insolvent. All national health service organisations have sufficient funding to pay their bills within a reasonable time. (Liam Byrne, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department of Health)

At-risk Children
Q: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many children were on the at-risk register in each local authority in England at the end of each council year since 1989.(John Hemming)

A: I have been asked to reply.

The information requested is available from the Department's website at:

hhttp://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/VOL/v000553/index.shtml
(Beverley Hughes, Minister of State, Department for Education and Skills)


Predictive Diallers (Treasury)
Q: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many calls were made from call centres in his Department in 2004–05 using predictive diallers; how many such calls resulted in contact being made with the recipient without a Government agent available to talk to them; and what assessment he has made of the likely impact of Ofcom's policy on silent calls on the use of predictive diallers in departmental call centres.(John Hemming)

A: The Treasury has no call centres. (John Healey, Financial Secretary, HM Treasury)

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