HC Deb 22 July 1985 vol 83 c405W
Mr. Dobson

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the health authorities where estimates of annual income uncollected have been given by statutory auditors, giving the estimate for each health authority.

Mr. Kenneth Clarke

In their reports on the audit of the accounts of health authorities for 1983–84 statutory auditors gave estimates of income uncollected. However, these figures do not cover income in respect of private patients alone. They also include income from other unrelated non-NHS activities and due under the Road Traffic Acts. The estimates were as follows:

£
Bradford DHA 5,500
Darlington DHA 20,000
Sheffield DHA 9,000
Nottingham DHA 24,377
Lewisham and North Southwark DHA 21,360
Camberwell DHA 55,650
Merton and Sutton DHA 1,450
National Hospitals for Nervous Diseases SHA 133,646
Oxfordshire DHA 7,918
Coventry DHA 45,000
Torbay DHA 1,000
North Birmingham DHA 11,154
Shropshire DHA 2,110
Durham DHA 3,600
Calderdale DHA 24,941
Airedale DHA 800