HC Deb 20 February 1996 vol 272 cc97-101W
Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what information his Department maintains on the use of general practice fundholders' savings(a) by general practitioner fundholding practices and (b) by regional health authorities. [9034]

Mr. Malone

[pursuant to his reply, 16 January c. 555]: The Department receives information from each family health services authority each year on the amount of savings used by general practitioner fundholders.

Monitoring of the detailed use of savings is a local responsibility. Information about this is not routinely collected centrally.

Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 16 January,Official Report, column 555, if he will list (a) by family health service authority, and (b) by region, the total savings made by general practitioners and the level of savings spent in each year since the inception of fundholding. [11108]

Mr. Malone

I refer the hon. Member to the replies I gave him on 24 November 1994,Official Report, column 321–22, and on 14 March 1995, Official Report, column 545–46, which provide the available information on savings made by general practitioner fundholders.

The available information on savings used by GP fundholders is given in the table.

Savings used by GP Fundholders—1993–94
FHSA name Amount used (£000)
Northern Yorkshire
Bradford 262
Calderdale 2
Cleveland 131
Cumbria 0
Durham 171
Gateshead 52
Humberside 90
Kirklees 0
Leeds 265
Newcastle 27
North Tyneside 0
North Yorkshire 405
Northumberland 75
South Tyneside 5
Sunderland 0
Wakefield 638
Trent
Barnsley 0
Derbyshire 168
Doncaster 27
Leicestershire 319
Lincolnshire 150
Nottinghamshire 159
Rotherham 6
Sheffield 39
Anglia and Oxford
Bedfordshire 43
Berkshire 737
Buckinghamshire 1,009
Cambridgeshire 155
Norfolk 266
Northamptonshire 199
Oxfordshire 272
Suffolk 98
North Thames
Barking and Havering 1
Barnet 49
Brent and Harrow 8
Camden and Islington 107
Savings used by GP Fundholders—1993–94
FHSA name Amount used (£000)
City and East London 32
Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 153
Enfield and Haringey 21
Essex 438
Hertfordshire 524
Hillingdon 104
Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 140
Redbridge and Waltham Forest 7
South Thames
Bromley 27
Croydon 24
East Sussex 47
Greenwich and Bexley 37
Kent 109
Kingston and Richmond 74
Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 21
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 158
Surrey 78
West Sussex 148
South and West
Avon 248
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly 267
Devon 299
Dorset 151
Gloucestershire 26
Hampshire 263
Isle of Wight 18
Somerset 123
Wiltshire 37
Savings used by GP Fundholders—1993–94
FHSA name Amount used (£000)
West Midlands
Birmingham 468
Coventry 49
Dudley 0
Hereford and Worcestershire 676
Sandwell 228
Shropshire 203
Solihull 521
Staffordshire 522
Walsall 50
Warwickshire 23
Wolverhampton 0
North-west
Bolton 0
Bury 0
Cheshire 649
Lancashire 89
Liverpool 304
Manchester 38
Oldham 913
Rochdale 39
Salford 0
Sefton 152
St. Helens and Knowsley 108
Stockport 0
Tameside 68
Trafford 0
Wigan 0
Wirral 148

Source:

Regional offices.