§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will publish his Department's estimate of the costs of implementing the category (b) recommendation in the second report of the Social Services Committee on perinatal and neonatal mortality.
§ Mr. Patrick JenkinThe costs would depend on numerous decisions taken up and down the country and no exact calculation is possible. The following table shows a lower level and a higher level between which the Department judges that the costs would be likely to fall.
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Recommendation Low level £ million High level Notes 62 — — No additional cost 68 — — Staff included under recommendations 5(iii) and 17(i) 69 0.025 0.22 70 1.5 4.8 71 4.0 4.0 80 — — Staff included under recommendations 5(iii) and 17(i) 86 — — No costing possible 89 1.03 1.03 99 — — No costing possible 100 1.8 3.6 Premises included under recommendation 5(iv) 103 — — Staff included under recommendations 5(iii) and 17(i) 105 — — Premises included under recommendation 5(iv) 108 0.02 0.4 121 0.2 0.2 122 0.35 2.0 138 — — Would not necessarily involve additional resources 148 and 149 — — Costing not considered appropriate Totals 64.2 162.6 Notes
- (1) Capital costs annuitised assuming a length of life of 7 years for equipment and 50 years for buildings.
- (2) Maintenance on equipment is assumed to be 10 per cent, of purchase price per annum.