§ Mr. BurstowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the(a) information requests and (b) data collections (i) made by and (ii) supplied to his Department concerning NHS finances; when they are collected; when they are available for publication; and at what level of NHS organisation the information is collected. [154584]
§ Mr. HuttonI refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave on 10 February 2004,Official Report, column 1411W.
In addition, special health authorities also supply annual accounts, capital charge estimates and financial monitoring data to the Department.
1130WAnnual accounts are published locally by individual national health service bodies. The accounts data collected by the Department is summarised and published. The most recent such publication was in March 2003, in respect of the summarised 2001–02 accounts.
NHS annual accounts data is also used by the Department in the preparation of the Departmental Resource Account. The 2002–03 Resource Account was published in January 2004.