§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what was(a) the total bill for salaries and expenses for board members, (b) the administrative operating costs and (c) the total annual budget in the latest year for which figures are available for each regional health authority in England. [30199]
§ Mr. HuttonRegional health authorities were dissolved in 1996. The answer shown in the table provides expenditure by health authority area for(a) authority members' remuneration, (b) authority administration expenditure and (c) total expenditure for 2000–01.
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£000 Health authority Authority members' remuneration Administration expenditure Total expenditure Avon 441 19,620 808,107 Barking and Havering 456 4,912 313,841 Barnet 396 5,698 317,222 Barnsley 338 3,830 196,582 Bedfordshire 390 12,247 405,606 Berkshire 454 13,619 585,486 Bexley and Greenwich 551 6,216 386,555 Birmingham 741 25,335 891,730 Bradford 1,013 8,615 387,767 Brent and Harrow 286 6,663 400,214 Bromley 432 5,797 284,221 Buckinghamshire 555 11,202 460,821 Bury and Rochdale 449 3,964 310,554 Calderdale and Kirklees 365 7,671 448,263 Cambridgeshire 1,341 14,862 518,689 Camden and Islington 374 6,094 537,478 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 639 6,351 392,751 County Durham and Darlington 496 6,302 495,693 Coventry 390 9,752 265,956 Croydon 543 4,125 303,260 Doncaster 489 7,127 271,638 Dorset 1,168 14,706 711,560 Dudley 365 3,629 245,172 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 570 16,225 630,055 East and North Hertfordshire 341 22,112 377,290 East Kent 440 10,729 495,988 East Lancashire 583 9,881 416,671 East London and the City 439 46,738 715,153 East Riding and Hull 476 5,498 4151,486 East Surrey 488 8,695 365,566 East Sussex, Brighton and Hove 456 9,054 647,275 Enfield and Haringey 457 6,275 421,984 Gateshead and South Tyneside 409 3,849 319,730 Gloucestershire 392 5,451 411,598 Herefordshire 629 4,337 120,606 Hillingdon 747 6,256 186,751 In many health authorities there are factors which distort expenditure figures for comparison purposes. These affect the answers given for part (c) and include:
the health authority acting in a lead capacity to commission health care or fund training on behalf of other health bodies;asset revaluations in national health service trusts being funded through health authorities; andsome double counting of expenditure between health authorities and primary care trusts within the health authority area.Expenditure cannot therefore be reliably compared between health authorities.
Allocations per weighted head of population provide a much more reliable measure to identify differences between funding of health authorities.
Source:
Health authority audited summarisation forms 2000–01
Primary care trust audited summarisation schedules 2000–01.
Expenditure is taken from health authority and primary care trusts within each health authority area. The majority of General Dental Services expenditure is not included in the health authority or primary care trust accounts and is separately accounted for by the Dental Practice Board.
Health authorities and primary care trusts should account for their expenditure on a gross basis. This results in an element of double counting where one body acts as the main commissioner and is then reimbursed by other bodies. The effect of this double counting within the answer cannot be identified.
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£000 Health authority Authority members' remuneration Administration expenditure Total expenditure Isle of Wight 470 2,284 118,677 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 486 5,975 509,929 Kingston and Richmond 799 6,411 278,725 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 502 11,575 803,339 Leeds 654 8,860 647,260 Leicestershire 667 10,387 664,488 Lincolnshire 413 7,027 510,114 Liverpool 514 5,757 479,438 Manchester 825 10,468 469,117 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 923 14,876 574,703 Morecambe Bay 415 5,046 424,583 Newcastle and North Tyneside 407 5,803 425,973 Norfolk 606 8,925 598,090 North and East Devon 415 7,172 377,902 North and Mid Hampshire 362 6,289 386,281 North Cheshire 441 3,558 254,458 North Cumbria 439 9,368 250,278 North Derbyshire 414 4,415 271,232 North Essex 1,225 20,191 679,568 North Nottinghamshire 951 9,002 294,850 North Staffordshire 529 9,141 375,815 North West Lancashire 438 11,011 394,099 North Yorkshire 503 8,365 564,991 Northamptonshire 988 7,729 427,464 Northumberland 369 3,320 273,023 Nottingham 471 6,873 536,389 Oxfordshire 371 7,760 446,085 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 430 10,418 404,181 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 377 4,239 408,558 Rotherham 396 3,306 197,645 Salford and Trafford 482 7,600 407,129 Sandwell 518 6,443 255,198 Sefton 460 5,746 310,887 Sheffield 489 10,407 547,408 Shropshire 515 4,451 304,921 Solihull 315 3,059 146,558 Somerset 419 6,973 380,621 South and West Devon 706 6,751 481,570 South Cheshire 470 7,253 513,076 South Essex 748 15,421 552,193 South Humber 787 5,969 247,890 South Lancashire 374 3,186 229,058 South Staffordshire 434 9,609 406,554 Southampton and South West Hampshire 698 6,798 407,875 Southern Derbyshire 705 15,432 421,492 St. Helens and Knowsley 397 4,084 282,894 Stockport 356 3,696 212,670 Suffolk 392 7,479 487,269 Sunderland 375 5,549 251,410 Tees 254 13,547 490,027 Wakefield 491 10,390 286,738 Walsall 309 5,998 205,300 Warwickshire 396 4,043 366,166 West Hertfordshire 471 10,271 401,807 West Kent 641 20,371 700,901 West Pennine 484 14,989 359,807 West Surrey 436 6,843 477,760 West Sussex 269 8,946 588,497 Wigan and Bolton 476 8,974 450,150 Wiltshire 478 5,867 448,801 Wirral 438 3,981 279,106 Wolverhampton 384 4,392 198,476 Worcestershire 357 5,534 394,445 England total 51,523 859,040 41,041,228