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NHS: Finance

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what market forces factor is used for each NHS trust. [166379]

Mr. Bradshaw: The market forces factor indices that are used to inform central payments to National Health Service Trusts and NHS Foundation Trusts for activity provided at national tariff in 2007-08. Copies have been placed in the Library.

Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 15 November 2007, Official Report, column 381W on NHS: finance, (1) whether the NHS is now expected to plan and manage its expenditure on a separate near-cash and non-cash basis; [167627]

(2) on what date his Department agreed with HM Treasury that the NHS would not plan or manage its expenditure on a separate near-cash and non-cash basis. [167628]

Mr. Bradshaw: Under the current financial regime, the national health service is not expected to manage its expenditure on a separate near-cash and non-cash basis. While HM Treasury require Departments to manage expenditure on a near-cash and non-cash basis, it is a matter for the Department to decide whether this requirement is extended to the NHS.

NHS: Loans

Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 29 October 2007, Official Report, column 890W, on NHS: loans, when his Department estimates that the £777,881,000 in loans issued to NHS trusts in the UK on 22 March 2007 will be paid back. [167852]

Mr. Bradshaw: The loans issued to NHS trusts on 22 March 2007 will be repaid in accordance with the loan terms shown in the following table:

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Organisation name	Loan value (£000)	Loan term (years)
Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust	14,700	6
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust	5,000	5
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust	17,500	4
Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust	4,500	3
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust	29,322	6
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	6,250	2
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust	7,800	5
East Cheshire NHS Trust	7,000	3
East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust	4,000	4
Epsom and St. Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust	14,000	3
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust	6,800	5
Heatherwood and Wrexham Park Hospitals NHS Trust	3,000	4
Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust	3,279	3
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust	10,896	5
Humber Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust	1,500	2
Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust	23,400	7
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	6,604	2
Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust	11,000	3
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust	23,400	5
North Bristol NHS Trust	52,000	20
North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust	8,800	3
North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	12,000	15
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust	15,000	5
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust	10,000	1
North West London Hospitals NHS Trust	23,830	5
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust	5,600	2
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	9,600	3
Nuffield Orthopaedic NHS Trust	1,000	2
Oxford Radcliffe Hospital NHS Trust	19,986	6
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust	2,500	4
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust	8,415	2
Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust	13,650	5
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Kings Lynn NHS Trust	6,300	3
Rob Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic NHS Trust	3,400	3
Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust	38,000	20
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust	9,000	2
Scarborough and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust	7,646	5
Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust	12,299	3
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust	1,115	2
South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust	28,000	4
South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust	18,500	8
Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust	25,000	4
St. George’s Healthcare NHS Trust	34,000	5
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	56,000	25
The Royal West Sussex NHS Trust	23,000	14
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust	1,700	3
United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust	20,300	20
University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust	6,500	3
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust	11,200	5
West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust	1,950	3
Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust	36,094	9
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust	5,000	4
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	25,000	5
Worcestershire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust	5,632	5
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust	17,005	8
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust	2,908	1
Total	777,881	—

Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which NHS trusts propose to declare interest payments on the loans given on 22 March 2007 on their end of year balance sheets in future financial years. [167888]

Mr. Bradshaw: National health service trusts declare interest payable on the loans issued on 22 March 2007 in their annual financial statements under the ‘Interest Payable’ heading on the face of the Income and Expenditure Account, and provide a more detailed breakdown of this figure in the associated note to the financial statements.

Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which NHS trusts in receipt of loans issued on 22 March 2007 (a) included the loans on their end of year balance sheets for the financial year 2006-07 and (b) propose to include the loans on their end of year balance sheets for 2007-08. [167889]

Mr. Bradshaw: Under national health service accounting policies, as set out in the NHS finance manual, NHS trusts are required to include the outstanding value of loan principal on their balance sheets from the time the loan is issued until such time as the principal is fully repaid.

Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total annual interest payable on the £777.881 in loans issued to NHS trusts on 22 March 2007 will be. [167890]

Mr. Bradshaw: The total interest payable in 2007-08 on the £777.881 million of loans issued to national health service trusts on 22 March 2007 is £38.705 million. The interest payable each year is calculated on the outstanding value of loan principal, and therefore reduces in future years as loan principal is repaid.

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NHS: Procurement

Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what contingency plans there are for national emergencies within the contract for supply chain logistics due to be managed by the Supply Chain Management Division of the NHS Business Service Authority; and if he will make a statement. [165277]

Mr. Bradshaw: There are no special arrangements in the NHS supply chain contract for contingency plans in the event of a national emergency. However, if required the NHS supply chain, under the direction of the NHS Business Services authority, will re-prioritise demand to ensure that emergency deliveries can be made on request and that in these circumstances delivery is to be made to the national health service within four hours of an order being placed.

NHS: Public Participation

Stephen Hammond: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much was spent by (a) the NHS, (b) his Department and (c) Sutton Merton Primary Care Trust on the consultation on Better Healthcare Closer to Home. [166721]

Mr. Bradshaw: A total of £280,000 was spent on the Better Healthcare Closer to Home consultation. The Department did not contribute separately to the funding of the consultation.

The costs were divided equally between the following organisations:

Sutton and Merton Primary Care Trust (PCT)

East Elmbridge and Mid Surrey PCT

Epsom and St. Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Surrey and Sussex Strategic Health Authority (SHA)

South West London SHA.

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