§ Mr. Campbell-SavoursTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if she will make a statement on representations by Angela Fulter, director of the King's Fund, on the use of general practitioner fundholders' resources for the purchase of property and property improvements to fundholder premises;
(2) what arrangements she is intending to make for the return to the taxpayers of financial resources used by fundholders for the purchase of property and property improvement to fundholders' premises, where fundholder general practitioners dispose of their practices' pecuniary interests on retirement.
§ Mr. MaloneUnder the National Health Service (Fund-holding Practices) Regulations 1993, general practitioner fundholders may use efficiency savings to improve practice premises where this is for the benefit of patients. These rules are kept under review. Fundholding general practitioners may not use efficiency savings to purchase new premises.
§ Mr. SheermanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what evidence she has of fundholding general practitioner practices selling premises purchased out of public funds for windfall profits.
§ Mr. MaloneNone.