2. INVESTMENT (continued)
2.4.2 What has revenue spending on GP
premises been in each year since 1997-98? Could the Department
comment on the consistency of this series? (Q18)
ANSWER
1. The data requested is given in Table
18.
2. In the main, revenue spend on GP premises
is to support capital borrowed by GPs who build and own their
own premises or invested by private landlords who rent the premises
to GPs and their staff. In addition, revenue funding grants made
to practices as a contribution towards the cost of improvements
to premises; for example to build an extension to better deliver
services.
3. As indicated in the table, spend on PMS
premises was not collected until 2004-05 and the sharp decrease
in the totals from 2001-02 reflects proportionate increased take-up
of PMS. Whilst accurate comparisons cannot be made between pre
and post 2004 data, around 40% of practices are covered by PMS
and it is expected that a similar proportion will comprise total
premises spend.
Table 18
REVENUE SPEND ON GP PREMISES SINCE 1997-98
|
| Year | £ millions
|
|
| 1997-98 | 292.2
|
| 1998-99 | 319.3
|
| 1999-2000 | 321.5
|
| 2000-01 | 334.2
|
| 2001-02 | 302.5
|
| 2002-03 | 282.3
|
| 2003-04 | 270.4
|
| 2004-05(3) | 577.0
|
| 2005-06(3) | 661.0
|
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Source:PCT FIMS returns.
Footnotes:
1. Personal medical services (PMS) was introduced in 1998 and premises spend data not collected until 2004-05.
2. Sharp decrease in spend between 2001-02 to 2004-05 reflects proportionate increased take-up of PMS.
3. GMS and PMS allocations. Actual spend returns being validated.
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2.5 Personal Social Services (PSS) Investment
2.5.1 Could the Department tabulate Local Authority
Personal Social Services capital expenditure, broken down into
maintenance and new acquisitions, and income, broken down into
sale of buildings and sale of equipment, from 1997-98 to 2005-06?
(Q19)
ANSWER
1. The information requested is given in Table 19.
Table 19
LOCAL AUTHORITY PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES CAPITAL EXPENDITURE
AND INCOME 1997-98 TO 2006-07
|
£ millions
|
1997-98 | 1998-99
| 1999-2000 | 2000-01
| 2001-02 | 2002-03(2)
| 2003-04 | 2004-05
| 2005-06
(pro-
visional)
| 2006-07
(pro-
visional)
|
|
| Maintenance | 11.8
| 10.9 | 10.4
| 12.3 | 12.5
| | | |
| |
| New acquisitions | 138.2
| 129.1 | 123.6
| 143.7 | 145.5
| | | |
| |
| TOTAL SPEND | 150
| 140 | 134
| 156.1 | 158.3
| 199.3 | 260.0
| 284.5 | 286.0
| 469.0 |
| Sale of buildings | 34.4
| 42.4 | 40.8
| 50 | 64.5
| | | |
| |
| Sale of equipment | 8.6
| 10.6 | 10.2
| 12 | 5.5
| | | |
| |
| TOTAL RECEIPTS | 43
| 53 | 51
| 63 | 70.4
| 75.0 | 74.5
| 77.0 | 75.0
| 126.0 |
| NET SPEND | 107.0
| 87.0 | 83.0
| 93.3 | 87.9
| 124.3 | 185.5
| 207.5 | 211.0
| 343.0 |
|
Source:
COR (Outturn to 2004-05), CPR4 (Provisional) and CER (Forecast) returns.
Footnotes:
1. Figures may not sum due to rounding.
2. From 2002-03 the breakdown between maintenance and new acquisitions and the sale of buildings is no longer available.
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2.5.2 What Personal Social Services PFI projects have
been (a) approved and (b) given ministerial approval? Could details
of value, approval date and completion date be included? (Q20)
ANSWER
1.The information requested is given in Table 20.
2. The table shows, in alphabetical order, the PFI credits
awarded to all the social care PFI schemes, including those that
have reached financial close. Approval date and, where available,
estimated completion date, are included.
3. In the 2005 HSC response, five schemes were noted
as having bid. These (Birmingham, East Sussex, Medway, Tower Hamlets
and Wolverhampton) all received Ministerial approval and are included
in the table. They are currently undergoing the OBC approval stage,
and will be applying for Treasury endorsement of the PFI credits
award in the next few months.
4. The bidding round in 2005 also included the 2006-07
year in order to fund the five preferred bids. As this took up
the bulk of the availble funding, new bids will only be invited
from 2007-08 onwards. It has not yet been decided whether this
will be via a formal bidding round (as in 2005) or through ad
hoc bids (as was the approach before 2005).
5. Ministerial approval is the first stage in the approvals
process. A Local Authority may put forward a social care proposal
to DH via either an Expression of Interest (EoI) or a Strategic
Outline Case (SOC). If this meets the evaluation criteria, Ministerial
approval of an initial allocation of PFI credits is given.
6. The second approval stage is approval by Treasury,
and when social care projects have been approved, the award of
the PFI credits by the DH Minister is formally endorsed. This
approval is based on Outline Business Cases (OBC); the subsequent
Full Business Case, prior to contract signature, is approved by
the sponsoring department (ie DH) only. (However, if the amount
requested for PFI credits increases, further Treasury endorsement
may be necessary.)
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