§ Mr. O'HaraTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will itemise under heads of expenditure how the budget for entertainment within her Department was expended in the financial year 1992–93.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe Department of Health does not have a budget for entertainment. The nearest equivalent is hospitality, on which £246,374 was spent in 1992–93. A breakdown of this figure is shown in the table. Hospitality expenditure includes costs of refreshments for meetings of working groups and advisory committees and the high level of expenditure in some areas reflects activity on areas of work such as the Tomlinson review, specialist medical training, mental health, diet and nutrition, and the Warner report on the selection and recruitment of staff working in children's homes.
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Department of Health hospitality expenditure 1992–93 Budget £ Expenditure £ Ministers' Offices 40,000 31,178 Departmental Management 10,164 9,152 Economics and Operational Research 0 747 Finance—CFS, FHS, Admin. 795 1,043 Information Systems 2,600 1,259 Statistics 1,205 1,928 Community Services 2,717 13,833 Dental Services 400 1,120 Family Health Services 5,500 5,377 Health Care—Policy 15,021 16,661 Environment and Food 30,860 22,469 Health Promotion 8,571 19,088 Health and Social Services Coordination 2,090 751 International Relations 2,496 3,697 Medical Devices 4,462 4,318 Medical Support 2,570 5,754 Medicines Control 208 683 Pharmaceuticals 950 477 Information and Publicity 5,000 2,478 Research and Development 3,389 10,249 Nursing 0 6,661 Social Services Inspectorate 8,000 6,972 Corporate Affairs 26,359 29,571 HPSS Finance and Corporate Information 16,000 12,103 Health Authority Personnel 0 8,338 Health Care—Management 14,199 16,001 NHS Performance Management 7,555 12,703 Health Advisory Service 0 1,023 Mental Health Advisory Commission 500 611 Mental Health Review Tribunals 0 131
Budget £ Expenditure £ Departmental total 211,531 246,374 Notes
1. These titles represent the organisational groups which deal with the subjects concerned.
2. Hospitality expenditure tends to consist of a large number of small payments—for example, refreshments for meetings of advisory committees, working groups etcetera.
3. Managers are required to balance increased requirements in one area —such as hospitality—against reduced requirements in other areas.
§ Ms PrimaroloTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the hospitality budget for her Department, the management executive and each regional health authority for each of the last five years.
§ Mr. SackvilleInformation on the hospitality budget for regional health authorities is not available centrally. Figures for the Department of Health are shown in the table.
1990–91 £ 1991–92 £ 1992–93 £ Department of Health 121,579 163,670 211,531 National Health Service Management Executive 36,906 32,460 64,735 Notes:
1. Figures are not available prior to 1990–91.
2. Figures have not been adjusted for inflation.
3. Departmental figures include the NHS management executive figures.
4. Management executive figures are not directly comparable from year to year because of organisational changes.