§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health pursuant to the answer of 15 January 2004,Official Report, column 856W, on Health Promotion England, what happened to the underspends. [159128]
§ Miss Melanie JohnsonHealth Promotion England was funded from the Department's central budget programme in 2000–01 and 2001–02. Typically, underspends from individual budgets within the
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NHS hospital and community health services: Total ethnic minority groups1 of doctors in the psychiatry group, qualified nursing and qualified scientific, therapeutic and technical staff within the specified areas by Strategic Health Authority area in England as at 30 September 2003 Percentage Qualified nursing staff All doctors in the psychiatry group Consultants All qualified nurses in mental health Community psychiatry England 37.6 22.0 18.6 15.2 Q01 Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire SNA 37.4 20.3 8.9 8.7 Q02 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire SHA 56.9 38.9 40.8 40.0 Q03 Essex SHA 57.7 34.3 23.4 15.8 Q04 North West London SHA 43.0 20.4 57.7 47.5 Q05 North Central London SHA 26.2 10.8 57.0 53.4 Q06 North East London SHA 40.2 23.1 60.0 45.7 Q07 South East London SHA 33.4 21.8 53.2 48.5 Q08 South West London SHA 37.8 19.2 55.9 51.3 Q09 Northumberland, Tyne and Wear SHA 23.8 13.3 1.3 2.0 Q10 County Durham and Tees Valley SHA 26.5 23.8 1.1 2.2 Q11 North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire SHA 26.3 6.5 1.5 1.4 Q12 West Yorkshire SHA 37.6 17.6 8.7 7.1 Q13 Cumbria and Lancashire SHA 39.7 21.5 2.7 1.4 Q14 Greater Manchester SHA 36.7 20.0 10.2 10.3 programme would have been available for redeployment across the remainder of the central budget programme.
The fact that individual budgets within the overall central budget programme show underspends or overspends against individual allocations is not significant. The large central revenue programmes are managed, controlled and reconciled through the use of overall budget envelopes rather than on a specific budget or area basis.