§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will itemise by health authority spending per head of weighted population on management costs. [40280]
§ Mr. MaloneI refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave the hon. Members for York (Mr. Bayley) and for Dulwich (Ms Jowell) on 27 October,Official Report, column 848.
§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will itemise spending on(a) M1 management costs and (b) M2 management costs by (i) health authority 47W and (ii) trust for each year for which figures are available, by both amount and percentage of income; [40281]
(2) what measures of management and administrative costs in (a) trusts and (b) health authorities his Department maintains. [40283]
§ Mr. MaloneWe shall be publishing information shortly on management costs in national health service trusts and on the costs of running health authorities for 1994–95. I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave the right hon. Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett) on 19 October at columns363–64, for the details of what information will be provided about trusts' management costs for 1994–95 and what other measures of management costs have been provided previously. The 1994–95 information on the costs of running health authorities will cover all staff and non-staff costs with the exception of costs incurred in direct service provision—for example, health promotion, AIDS co-ordination; inherited costs—for example, premature retirement payments and costs of medical negligence claims—and capital charges on health centres and on surplus property in the process of disposal.