§ Ms PrimaroloTo ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 14 June,Official Report, column 380, regarding NHS budgets, if she will detail on what the total administrative budget, excluding staffing costs, was expended in each year since 1989.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe Department's administrative budget, excluding staff, covers a wide range of essential costs, including buildings—rent, maintenance, fuel and utilities, security, cleaning and other office services; meetings of expert advisory committees and working groups, conferences, seminars and publications; payments to other Government Departments, for example, to the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys for collection of statistics; consultancy, and staff training and travel.