§ 26. Mr. GerrardTo ask the Secretary of State for health what research her Department has undertaken into the administrative costs of general practitioner fundholding; and if she will make a statement. [17586]
§ Mr. MaloneThe Department keeps the management costs of general practitioner fundholding under regular review. In the first three years of the scheme, GP fundholding management costs were about 2 per cent, of budgets set. Figures are not yet available for 1994–95, but we expect them to be of the same order.