§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Leominster (Mr. Temple-Morris) of 16 March,Official Report, column 692, and the letter of 5 April placed in the Library from the chief executive of the Welsh Development Agency concerning joint venture agreements entered into by the agency (1) if he will
£000 Medical and front-line support (1) Administrative and clerical (2) Directly employed NHS staff (3) FHSA contractual staff (4) Total columns (2) and (3) 1979–80 27,837 159,593 27,238 186,831 1980–81 33,986 220,857 36,434 257,291 1981–82 36,702 239,751 40,921 280,672 1982–83 37,504 261,243 46,444 307,687 1983–84 42,697 278,551 50,538 329,089 1984–85 46,136 303,396 56,803 360,199 1985–86 48,130 327,455 55,020 382,475 1986–87 50,430 360,269 63,485 423,754 1987–88 57,170 408,732 70,996 479,728 1988–89 63,526 475,481 82,607 558,088 1989–90 73,630 542,564 86,186 628,750 1990–91 87,367 593,407 91,753 685,160 1991–92 107,018 626,260 121,454 747,714 1992–93 124,152 683,080 124,219 807,299 1993–94 141,321 697,545 128,429 825,974 Source:
Annual Accounts/Financial Returns of HAs, SHAs, FHSAs, NHS Trusts, and Welsh Office records.
Notes:
1. Column (1) figures include the salaries and wages of general and senior managers, and administrators and clerks in health authorities, SHAs, FHSAs and NHS trusts, including agency staff. The figures exclude the costs of GPs' administrative staff as this information is not separately collected.
2. Column (2) figures include the salaries of medical, dental, nursing, professional and technical staff employed in HAs, SHAs, FHSAs and NHS trusts. They exclude the costs of ancillary, maintenance and ambulance staff. They also include in 1993–94 £14.3 million associated with the pre-registration salary/bursary costs of nurses. In previous years these cost were reflected in health body accounts, and are in the figures above for earlier years. From 1993–94 these funds have been managed by the Welsh Office.
3. Column (3) figures include the estimated earnings of dentists, and GP's and their staff costs, (medical and administrative as information to allow splitting of these costs is not collected). Those for pharmaceutical and ophthalmic contractors cannot be disaggregated from service costs and are not included.
4. The reduction in administrative and managerial numbers in health authorities resulting form current policy will be reflected in the 1994–95 figures available shortly. Total numbers of administrative and managerial staff are now 193 below the peak level.
254Wlist the total costs to public funds of those projects listed in each of the financial years given; [25295]
(2) what was the cost to public funds of agency involvement for each project listed. [25296]
§ Mr. RedwoodI will arrange for the chief executive of the agency to write to the hon. Member. A copy of his letter will be placed in the Library of the House.