§ Hugh Bayley:To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will state for each NHS acute trust and each NHS primary care trust for the latest year for which figures are available (a) the national reference cost index (Market Forces Factor adjusted), (b) the increase or decrease in funding which the trust would require if its costs were the national average and (c) the trust's surplus or deficit that year. [93081]
§ Mr. Hutton:The information is available in the Library in the Reference Cost Index 2002.
It is not possible to identify the potential increase or decrease that each trust would require if costs were moved to the national average at this point. Approximately 11 per cent. of services are still excluded from reference costs and national average costs do not yet exist for these services. This does not allow a full analysis and assessment of the overall impact on an individual organisation's income flows.
Information on National Health Service trusts' surplus and deficits have been placed in the Library.