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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Pike: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how much funding has been made available for improving buildings in Burnley for (a) general practitioner practices, (b) East Lancashire Acute Trust, (c) Burnley General Hospital and (d) other health services in each year since 1997; and if he will make a statement. [219494] Miss Melanie Johnson: The information is not available in the format requested. The following table shows the net book value of purchased capital additions (buildings, dwellings and transfers from assets under construction) for the East Lancashire hospitals national health service trust and its predecessor trusts. £000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Burnley health care NHS trust East Lancashire hospitals NHS Valley health care NHS trust trust 1997-98 1,733 1,231 n/a 1998-99 9,074 7,341 n/a 1999-2000 1,460 6,838 n/a 2000-01 2,108 1,787 n/a 2001-02 7,432 2,430 n/a 2002-03 2,390 8,577 n/a 2003-04 n/a n/a 4,350 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Notes: 1. The figures in the table do not include private finance initiative (PFI) expenditure where PFI costs are revenue expenditure in the books of NHS bodies. 2. Capital investment will vary between years owing to the investment decisions at individual NHS bodies. Sources: Audited summarisation schedules of the East Lancashire hospitals NHS trust 2003-04. Audited summarisation schedules of the Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley health Care NHS trust and the Burnley health care NHS trust 1997-98.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

431 c1732-3W;431 c1728-9W; 219494

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Finance General practitioners Repairs and maintenance Burnley Lancashire GP surgeries

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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