HC Deb 28 March 1994 vol 240 c596W
Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 14 March,Official Report, column 538, how many of the cases of medical negligence, and what costs, were associated with self-governing trusts.

Dr. Mawhinney

None for 1990–91, as there were no national health service trusts then. For 1991–92, the returns were incomplete, as previously stated, and it would be invidious to extract from the information already provided, the figures for NHS trusts that supplied them, without comparable details for others or for individual directly managed units.

Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to her answer of 14 March,Official Report, column 538, when she expects the information on medical negligence claims for 1992–93 to be available.

Dr. Mawhinney

The information for 1992–93 that has been supplied by national health service bodies by 31 March 1994 will be collated and will be available shortly after that.