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Content and information on NHS Direct Online and Digital TV is provided in the following languages:


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NHS Direct also offers to provide translated versions of any Online, Digital TV and Health Information content in the languages listed above upon request.

The budgetary allocation for these services for 2008-09 is £255,000.

NHS Direct actively encourages patients and the public to provide feedback regarding the service. Since commencing the current contract with Language Line there have been no formal complaints regarding translation services.

NHS: Buildings

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much capital expenditure there was on buildings in the NHS between (a) 1979 and 1997 and (b) 1997 and 2007 in real terms using 2006-07 prices; and if he will make a statement. [225033]

Mr. Bradshaw: The information in the following table shows total capital expenditure in the NHS over the period specified. The Department does not hold historic records that identify the proportion of this expenditure on buildings.


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NHS capital expenditure, England, 1979-80 to 2007-08
Capital net NHS expenditure (£ billion)

Nominal 2006-07 prices

Cash( 1)

1979-80

Outturn

0.452

1.512

1980-81

Outturn

0.611

1.727

1981-82

Outturn

0.738

1.903

1982-83

Outturn

0.771

1.859

1983-84

Outturn

0.793

1.827

1984-85

Outturn

0.874

1.912

1985-86

Outturn

0.927

1.920

1986-87

Outturn

0.940

1.886

1987-88

Outturn

0.926

1.757

1988-89

Outturn

0.928

1.649

1989-90

Outturn

1.222

2.027

1990-91

Outturn

1.426

2.193

1991-92

Outturn

1.524

2.212

1992-93

Outturn

1.752

2.467

1993-94

Outturn

1.594

2.184

1994-95

Outturn

1.865

2.517

1995-96

Outturn

1.736

2.277

1996-97

Outturn

1.341

1.696

1997-98

Outturn

1.089

1.343

1998-99

Outturn

0.808

0.975

1999-2000

Outturn

0.963

1.140

Resource Budgeting Stage 1( 2)

1999-2000

Outturn

0.908

1.075

2000-01

Outturn

1.246

1.455

2001-02

Outturn

1.732

1.979

2002-03

Outturn

2.107

2.333

Resource Budgeting Stage 2( 3)

2003-04

Outturn

2.602

2.800

2004-05

Outturn

2.624

2.750

2005-06

Outturn

2.151

2.209

2006-07

Outturn Estimated

3.069

3.069

2007-08

Outturn

3.591

3.484

(1) Expenditure pre 1999-2000 is on a cash basis.
(2) Expenditure figures from 1999-00 to 2002-03 are on a stage 1 resource budgeting basis.
(3) Expenditure figures from 2003-04 to 2010-11 are on a stage 2 resource budgeting basis.
Notes:
1. Expenditure excludes NHS (AME).
2. GDP deflator 30 September 2008.

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