§ Mr. HealdTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the bad debts and moneys written off by each health authority in each year since 1997. [41711]
§ Mr. HuttonLosses due to bad debts and claims abandoned for each English health authority since 1997 are shown in the table. 769W
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Losses for health authorities £000 Health authority area 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 Coventry 0 3 0 32 Croydon 0 0 0 0 Doncaster 0 0 0 0 Dorset 0 0 0 0 Dudley 0 2 3 0 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 0 0 0 0 East and North Hertfordshire 0 0 0 0 East Kent 0 0 1 0 East Lancashire 0 0 0 0 East London and the City 0 1 3 0 East Norfolk 0 0 n/a n/a East Riding and Hull 2 0 0 0 East Surrey 0 9 0 0 East Sussex, Brighton and Hove 2 2 2 0 Enfield and Haringey 15 2 1 16 Gateshead and South Tyneside 9 3 0 0 Gloucestershire 0 0 0 0 Herefordshire 0 0 0 0 Hillingdon 26 0 0 0 Isle of Wight 0 0 0 0 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 0 0 95 41 Kingston and Richmond 0 0 0 0 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 20 59 0 0 Leeds 0 0 4 0 Leicestershire1 1 0 525 0 Lincolnshire 3 8 0 0 Liverpool 0 6 0 0 Manchester 1 1 0 0 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 0 0 0 2 Morecambe Bay 0 1 0 1 Newcastle and North Tyneside 112 0 1 0 Norfolk n/a n/a 0 0 North and East Devon 0 0 0 0 North and Mid Hampshire 40 27 24 0 North Cheshire 0 0 0 0 North Cumbria 0 1 0 0 North Derbyshire 0 0 0 12 North Essex 6 1 0 0 North Nottinghamshire 0 0 0 0 North Staffordshire 4 0 2 1 North West Anglia 0 0 n/a n/a North West Lancashire 0 0 0 0 North Yorkshire 0 2 0 0 Northamptonshire 1 0 2 0 Northumberland 1 0 0 0 Nottingham 18 5 0 0 Oxfordshire 1 0 0 0 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 0 0 0 0 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 1 0 0 0 Rotherham 5 0 2 1 Salford and Trafford 0 0 0 0 Sandwell 0 0 0 2 Sefton 0 0 0 0 Sheffield 281 63 0 2 Shropshire 0 0 23 0 Solihull 131 0 0 0 Somerset 0 1 0 2 South and West Devon 0 0 0 0 South Cheshire 0 0 0 0 South Essex 0 0 0 0 South Humber 0 0 0 1 South Lancashire 0 0 45 37 South Staffordshire 0 2 0 4 Southampton and South West Hampshire 0 1 1 1 Southern Derbyshire 1 0 7 0 St. Helens and Knowsley 2 0 0 0 Stockport 0 0 0 0 Suffolk 13 0 0 0 Sunderland 0 9 0 7 Tees 0 0 0 0 Wakefield 2 0 0 0 Walsall 2 0 0 5 Warwickshire 0 0 0 0 West Hertfordshire 0 0 0 0 West Kent 0 0 0 3
Losses for health authorities Health authority area 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 West Pennine 0 0 5 3 West Surrey 1 1 1 0 West Sussex 0 0 0 10 Wigan and Bolton 0 4 2 0 Wiltshire 1 3 2 11 Wirral 0 0 2 1 Wolverhampton 1 0 0 0 Worcestershire 0 0 2 2 1 Although the loss shown for Leicestershire health authority was recorded in 2000–01, it relates to events which occurred between 1992 and 1994 and involved overpayments to a company which went into receivership Note:
Data for 2000–01 is the last period available.
Source:
Health authority audited accounts 1997–98 and 1998–99.
Health authority audited summarisation forms 1999–2000 and 2000–01.