§ Lord Tebbitasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether sums committed by public/private partnership schemes to provide facilities within the National Health Service are included in the Government's statement of expenditure on the National Health Service. [HL3442]
§ Lord Warner:Yes. Section 4 of the Department of Health's Departmental Report 2004 summarises the National Health Service capital investment plans. These include the estimated yearly construction costs to private sector contractors on schemes taken forward under the private finance initiative as well as the figures for the department's capital resource consumption as financed from the amounts voted annually by Parliament.