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NHS Cost
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much the NHS cost the public purse in 2005-06; and how much this equated to per tax paying citizen. [115569]
Andy Burnham: National health service expenditure is not usually presented in the format per tax paying citizen.
Total NHS expenditure for 2005-06 was £76.4 billion. (Estimated outturn)
The total number of individual income tax payers in 2005-06 was 29,700,000. (Figure taken from HMT, HMRC/stats/tax receipts/tablel-4).
NHS Direct
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the estimated annual cost is to the public purse of providing NHS Direct through Freeview. [114985]
Andy Burnham: NHS Direct Special Health Authority indicate that the cost of providing NHS Direct interactive service on the Freeview platform is £800,000 plus VAT per year.
The service was launched on 20 December 2006 so the costs for this financial year, 2006-07, will be £230,000.
NHS Finance
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health whether (a) contingency funds and (b) funds created by top-slicing primary care trust (PCT) allocations are being distributed to other PCTs and trusts in 2006-07; and whether the resulting out-turn figures will record the overspends of these trusts, exclusive of the in-year financial support. [113038]
Andy Burnham: The provision of in-year financial support is no longer permitted. Deficits in national health service organisations must rest where they fall. In 2006-07, strategic health authorities (SHAs) have the power to agree a top slice with their primary care trusts (PCTs) in order to create a reserve which may then be needed by the SHA to record financial balance across the patch. Transactions to create these resources must be fully reflected in the accounts of each organisation.
PCTs which make a contribution to their SHA reserve will be repaid, normally within the three-year allocation cycle, but the reserves will not be used to support directly other organisations.
Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made of the impact NHS budget deficits are having on spending on health improvement. [115230]
Caroline Flint: There are no central returns on spending on health improvement for an assessment of this kind.
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what elements are covered by the category Other in figure 6.1, page 104 of her Department’s annual report. [117119]
Andy Burnham: The other category of £2,312 million includes ambulance expenditure of £1,176 million, the other £1,137 is attributable to other services and expenditure.
Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of figure 6.1, page 104 of her Department’s annual report was spent on administration outside headquarters. [117120]
Andy Burnham: The figure quoted in figure 6.1 for headquarters administration refers to both primary care trust and strategic health authority administration. Trust administration is included within the ‘other’ category. Further disaggregation of where expenditure has been consumed is not available.
NHS Research Budget
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the budget of the (a) Medical Research Council and (b) NHS research and development has been in each year from 1997-98 to 2006-07 in (i) real and (ii) cash terms; and what she expects the combined budgets to be in (A) 2007-08 and (B) 2008-09. [115013]
Caroline Flint: The historic and current funding information requested is shown in the following table:
| £ million | ||||
| Medical Research Council | NHS Research and Development | |||
| Cash( 1) | Real terms( 2) | Cash | Real terms( 2) | |
| (1) Figures for years to 2000-01 are cash based and for later years are expenditure based. (2) 2006-07 cash equivalent calculated using the gross domestic product deflator. | ||||
The Medical Research Council budget for 2007-08 will be £546 million, and for NHS research and development will be £730 million. Budget allocations for 2008-09 have yet to be agreed.
NHS Services
Colin Challen:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what definition her Department uses of the word disproportionate in section F, para 3.30
Expenditure in the “Code of Practice for Promotion of NHS Services”; and if she will make a statement. [110733]
Andy Burnham: The “Code of Practice for Promotion of NHS Services” makes it clear that responsibility for appropriate expenditure on advertising and promotion to general practitioners, patients and the public lies with providers' boards. It proposes two options around controlling expenditure on promotion:
recording and disclosure of annual spend on promotion; or
limiting expenditure.
It asks for views on these options, on how the level of any cap on expenditure should be determined and on the proposed definition of expenditure.
This is a consultation and the Department will listen carefully to stakeholder responses before deciding on the final approach.
NHS Services: Reconfiguration
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what discussions the chief executive of the national health service has held with the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for Care Services on reconfigurations of NHS services since November 2006. [114981]
Mr. Ivan Lewis: I have had no discussions regarding reconfigurations of NHS services with the chief executive of the national health service since November 2006.
NHS Trusts
Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list the NHS trusts in negotiation with Monitor for take-over by foundation trusts. [113596]
Andy Burnham: The Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, West Midlands SHA and the Birmingham East and North PCT are currently consulting on a proposal for the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust to acquire Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust.
Ministers and Monitor (whose statutory name is the Independent Regulator of NHS Foundation Trusts) will need to consider the proposal. The acquisition will only proceed if the new organisation is financially viable as a foundation trust.
We are not aware that any further trusts are in negotiation with Monitor for take-over by foundation trusts.
Nurses
Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many nurses employed in each NHS trust were (a) trained in and (b) the nationals of developing countries before coming to the UK in each of the last five years. [113349]
Ms Rosie Winterton: This information is not collected centrally.
Nurses: Training
Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many students enrolled on (a) (i) diploma courses and (ii) in degree courses in nursing, (b) allied health professional courses and (c) part-time post-registration continuing professional development courses in each training establishment in each of the last five years. [113363]
Ms Rosie Winterton: Information on the number of students enrolled on nursing diploma and degree courses as well as allied health professional courses in each of the last five years is shown in the tables.
This information broken down by each training establishment and information on numbers on part-time post-registration continuing professional development courses is not collected centrally.
| Pre-registration nursing and midwifery training commissions | ||||||||
| Nursing Diploma | Degree | Total | Midwifery Degree | Diploma | Total | Other | Total | |
| Source: Quarterly monthly returns | ||||||||
| Pre-registration allied health professional training commissions | |||||
| 2001-02 | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | |
| Sources: QMR = NMET quarterly monitoring reports | |||||
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