Accumulated Assets

HC Deb 06 February 1995 vol 254 cc33-4W

Mrs. Beckett

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the total amount of accumulated assets of trust hospitals and directly managed units in each year since 1989.

Mr. Sackville

District health authorities did not account for fixed assets, and there were no trusts, prior to 1991–92. Information for 1991–92 to 1993–94 is shown in the table.

Accumulated assets
	DMUs1	NHS trusts
	£	£
1991–92	15,028,465,000	2,651,111,000
1992–93	12,268,968,000	6,465,354,000
1993–94	Note 1 refers	12,464,800,000

Source:NHS Summarised accounts.

¹Directly Managed Units.

Notes:

1. In 1993–94 district health authorities were not required to provide a separate figure for DMUs.

2. The 1993–94 figures are provisional.

3. The figures represent the total assets employed by DMUs and NHS trusts—fixed assets plus net current assets.