§ Mr. GerrardTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the total amounts of money given to the National Association of Fundholding Practices in each year since 1990; what amounts are proposed for 1996–97 and 1997–98; and if he will list the individual amounts given and what they were given for. [27400]
§ Mr. MaloneThe National Association of Fundholding Practices does not receive central funding to support the administration or management of its association. In 1994, the National Association of Fundholding Practices received a project grant of £50, 000 in response to a bid it made to the Department to develop, on behalf of the national health service, a national mentorship scheme available to all general practitioners considering entering fundholding.
§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will place in the Library a copy of the NHS executive letter sent to family health services authorities in May 1990 in respect of management allowances for general practitioner fundholders; and if subsequent alterations of that letter's contents were communicated to the family health services authorities. [27509]
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§ Mr. MaloneYes. Health service guidelines are issued to all relevant health service authorities and copies are normally placed in the Library.
§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list all representations received from family health services authorities between 1991 and 1995 in relation to the lawfulness of their payments of management allowances to general practitioner fundholders. [27506]
§ Mr. MaloneNo such representations were received.
§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he has taken to implement the recommendations of the internal inquiry into the circumstances leading to the delay in obtaining parliamentary approval for the payment of management allowances to general practitioner fundholders. [27504]
§ Mr. MaloneA team has been set up to produce an action plan to implement the recommendations of the inquiry.
§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations he received from the National Audit Office in respect of the independent inquiry into the circumstances leading to the failure to enact secondary legislation in respect of the payment of management allowances to general practitioner fundholders. [27507]
§ Mr. MaloneNone. Officials from the Department have kept the National Audit Office informed about the independent inquiry and provided them with all relevant papers.
§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will place in the Library a copy of the outline clause drafted in January 1991 to provide parliamentary approval for the payment of management allowances to general practitioner fundholders; and when the decision was taken to cease progress on it. [27508]
§ Mr. MaloneNo. I refer the hon. Member to the reply that I gave him on 25 April,Official Report, columns 282–83.