Written Assembly Questions tabled on 24 February 2015 for answer on 3 March 2015
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Written Questions must be tabled at least five working days before they are to be answered. In practice, Ministers aim to answer within seven/eight days but are not bound to do so. Answers are published in the language in which they are provided, with a translation into English of responses provided in Welsh.
To ask the Minister for the Economy, Science and Transport
Rhun ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn): How much EU money has been allocated to Wales to fund the Superfast Cymru project in each financial year? (WAQ68409)
Answer received on 3 March 2015
The Deputy Minister for Skills and Technology (Julie James): £89.5 million of European Regional Development Fund funding has been allocated for the length of the programme as a whole and is not split by financial year.
Rhun ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn): What commitment has the Welsh Government made to match fund the EU money allocated to Superfast Cymru? (WAQ68410)
Answer received on 3 March 2015
The Deputy Minister for Skills and Technology (Julie James): The Welsh Government is committed to match fund 43.8% (or £62,374,090) of the Convergence allocation with the remaining £80,000,000 (56.2%) supplied in European Regional Development Fund funding to bring it to a to a total of £142,374,090. The Welsh Government is committed to match fund 60.5% (or £14,550,633) of the Competitiveness allocation with the remaining £9,500,000 (39.5%) supplied by European Regional Development Fund funding to bring it to a total of £24,050,633.
Rhun ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn): What commitment has the UK Government made to match fund the EU money allocated to Superfast Cymru? (WAQ68411)
Answer received on 3 March 2015
Julie James: The UK Government via BDUK has committed £56.9 million to the Superfast Cymru programme as a whole.
Rhun ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn): How much has the Welsh Government spent on the Superfast Cymru project in each financial year? (WAQ68412)
Answer received on 3 March 2015
Julie James: To date, The Welsh Government has spent the following on the Superfast Cymru project-
FY 2012/13 £4,581,236.34
FY 2013/14 £23,818,882.01
FY 2014/15 £59,784,798.93 to date
Rhun ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn): How much has the UK Government spent on the Superfast Cymru project in each financial year? (WAQ68413)
Answer received on 3 March 2015
Julie James: All £56.9 million of the UK Government allocation has been drawn down and will be used across the length of the programme as a whole
Rhun ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn): How much funding has the Welsh Government allocated to Superfast Cymru for the 2015/16 financial year? (WAQ68414)
Answer received on 3 March 2015
The Deputy Minister for Skills and Technology (Julie James): The future funding allocated to the Superfast Cymru programme to the completion in June 2016 represents the difference between monies paid to date and the final maximum capped value of the grant – this being £205 million.
Rhun ap Iorwerth (Ynys Môn): How much funding has the UK Government allocated to Superfast Cymru for the 2015/16 financial year? (WAQ68415)
Answer received on 3 March 2015
Julie James: All £56.9 million of the UK Government allocation has been drawn down and will be used across the length of the programme as a whole.
To ask the Minister for Health and Social Services
Elin Jones (Ceredigion): Will the Minister provide information on the use of products manufactured by Teva pharmaceuticals in the NHS, including total expenditure? (WAQ68407)
Answer received on 3 March 2015
The Minister for Health and Social Services (Mark Drakeford): TEVA pharmaceuticals are a principal manufacturer and supplier of medicines to the NHS. An analysis of branded medicines supplied within the primary care setting is held by NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and is published on the Welsh Government Statistics and Research web-site as prescribing, cost and analysis (PCA) data.
A link to the primary care data can be found at: http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/prescriptions-dispensed-community/?lang=en. Please consider all explanatory notes and background included on this page when interpreting the data. The generic medicines manufactured by TEVA and prescribed within primary care cannot be identified from available data sources.
Hospital prescribing data is held by NHS Wales Informatics Services. Data for medicines prescribed in this sector is currently under development and recorded by the generic name of the medicine only. This data is not currently published as official statistics. Mechanisms to calculate information on branded products prescribing in secondary care is in development.
Elin Jones (Ceredigion): Will the Minister confirm whether the NHS has an ethical purchasing policy and, if so, provide details of where this policy can be found? (WAQ68408)
Answer received on 3 March 2015
Mark Drakeford: NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) Procurement Services provide purchasing functions on behalf of all local health boards and NHS trusts in Wales. NWSSP are refreshing their policy, and a new draft is expected to be finalised and issued for the 2015/16 financial year.
The NWSSP procurement services ethical procurement policy is part of their published Corporate Social Responsibility policy which can be found on the NWSSP Procurement services website, 'Policies and Procedures for Service Users' http://www.procurement.wales.nhs.uk/29528.file.dld