§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 20 April,Official Report, column 541, regarding trusts which failed to meet the capital return targets, when the information for 1993–94 will be made available.
§ Mr. SackvilleThis information will be available once accounts have been audited and submitted to the national health service executive in December 1994.
§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what has been the size of surpluses generated by trusts in each year since 1990–91, by region.
§ 1. Mr. SackvilleThe information requested is shown in the table. There were no operational trusts in the 1990–91 financial year. Information for 1993–94 will be available in December 1994.
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Region Retained surplus/(deficit) 1991–92 £000s 1992–93 £000s Northern 2,896 5,427 Yorkshire 3,100 2,991 Trent 153 4,593 East Anglian 1,075 533 North West Thames 6,145 17,220 North East Thames 7,249 13,165 South East Thames 1,082 9,597 South West Thames 6,582 4,116 Wessex 2,111 4,105 South Western 12,483 11,119 Oxford 104 4,356 West Midlands 2,932 4,177 Mersey 2,194 (749) North Western 50 6,952 Notes:
Source: Audited accounts of NHS Trusts 1991–92 and 1992–93.
2. The figures for 1992–93 are provisional, being subject to National Audit Office review.
3. Surplus/(Deficit) is after interest, dividend payable on Public Dividend Capital, extraordinary and exceptional items.
§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will itemise where trusts deposited their surpluses in each year since 1990–91.
§ Mr. SackvilleIt is for trusts to make their own arrangements for depositing cash not required for immediate use, within the constraints placed on them by statute. Information on where individual trusts deposit their money is not available centrally, but such arrangements as they do make are subject to independent audit. Paragraph 7 of schedule 3 to the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 states that trusts can invest surplus cash in securities of the Government of the United Kingdom or in such other manner as the Secretary of State may, with the consent of the Treasury, approve. Approval has been given for investment in certain United Kingdom public sector institutions, banks which are authorised institutions under part I of the Banking Act 1987, and building societies authorised under the Building Societies Act 1986.