HC Deb 02 April 1998 vol 309 c646W
Mr. Bercow

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many administrators in the National Health Service have had their contracts terminated since May 1997; what resources have been released by those terminations; and if he will make a statement. [37220]

Mr. Milburn

In May 1997, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced a programme of measures to reduce management costs by £84 million in England in 1997/98. There will be a further reduction of £80 million in 1998/99.

The information on individual staff is not held centrally.