HC Deb 29 March 1996 vol 274 c780W
Mr. Bayley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will break down the figure of £159.7 million in paragraph 36 of the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General in the "NHS (England) Summarised Accounts 1994–95" to show the amount of money paid in each financial year between April 1990 and March 1995 by each family health service association to enable general practitioner fundholders to meet the additional costs incurred in managing their funds; and if he will list the fundholding practices in each family health service association area which received the largest amount of money for this purpose between April 1990 and March 1995 indicating the amount of money received by each of those practices. [22991]

Mr. Malone

Information about general practitioner fundholder management allowance payments by family health services authority will be placed in the Library.

Payments to individual practices are governed by a maximum level of reimbursement which is set out in guidance annually. Detailed information about practice level payments is not available centrally.