HC Deb 13 May 2003 vol 405 c233W
Dr. Evan Harris

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the total cost of establishing(a) strategic health authorities and (b) primary care trusts. [110815]

Mr. Hutton

The costs of establishing strategic health authorities and primary care trusts were met from within the financial allocations to the health authorities and are therefore not identifiable. Approximately £63.1 million of central funding was made available between 1999–2000 to 2001–02 to support the establishment of primary care trusts.