NHS Spending (Managers' Salaries)

HC Deb 18 June 1997 vol 296 c162W

Mr. Norman

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of NHS spending is absorbed by managers' salaries. [3700]

Mr. Milburn

The information requested is given in the table:

	1995–96
Salaries and wages—General and senior managers	£789,507,000
As percentage of total salaries and wages	5.28 per cent.
As percentage of total revenue expenditure	3.30 per cent.

Source:

Financial returns of health authorities and National Health Service trusts.

Notes:

¹Information is provisional.

²Salaries and wages figures are based upon gross costs and include Employers National Insurance and Superannuation costs.

³The figures given are for hospital and community health services only. Family health services authorities and other health bodies are excluded as comparable figures are not collect centrally.