HC Deb 25 February 2002 vol 380 cc967-8W
Dr. Fox

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will publish the detailed expenditure costs of EEA medical costs(a) in total and (b) broken down by country of origin of the patient. [12778]

Yvette Cooper

The information requested is as follows

Estimated costs of EEA medical benefits for 2000–01
£000
EEA country UK payments to EEA states EEA states payments to the UK
Austria 1,711 618
Belgium 1,084 1,021
Denmark 1— 1—
Finland 0 0
France 25,914 2,282
Germany 474 111
Greece 863 658
Iceland 15 14
Ireland 141,475 14,258
Italy 5,837 5,535
Liechtenstein 0 0
Luxembourg 1— 1—
Netherlands 2,757 1,285
Norway 0 0
Portugal 541 110
Spain 31,012 750
Sweden 511 819
Total 212,194 27,461
1 Waiver. The UK has cost waiver agreements with Finland and Norway, except for referred patients. No claims were made in this financial year.

Notes:

  1. 1. Figures are based on latest available information and used for resource accounting and budgeting (RAB) purposes in 2000–01.
  2. 2. Claims against the UK are made in national currency and converted into sterling by using the quarterly mean exchange rates published by the EU commission.
  3. 3. Figures are rounded to the nearest thousand.