§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what data his Department collects on expenditure on NHS training and education and its distribution. [22168]
§ Mr. MaloneExpenditure on education and training is not identified separately in regional health authority nor health authority statutory annual accounts or financial returns nor trust annual summarisation schedules. Information on expenditure on education and training is collected separately from regional health authorities who currently have responsibility for commissioning non-medical education and training and medical and dental postgraduate education and training.
From 1 April, training activities not funded directly by health authorities and trusts will be funded via levies on health authorities: one each for NMET, PGMDE and SIFT—the service increment to support the costs to the NHS of undergraduate teaching. National information on 384W these levies for 1996–97 was published in the Health authority interim cash limit exposition booklet, copies of which are available in the Library.